sometimes artpig has too much time on his hands.
Beautiful Mag did a feature on photographer Ethan James . The artist discusses his process and his philosophy of photography. Like any good photographer, he realizes that the making of a good photograph is all about telling a story. It should come as no surprise that Mr James is also is a Ph.D. student at Middle Tennessee State University. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in English (short fiction creative writing) at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. His master's thesis was entitled, "Short Fiction Creative Writing: Storytelling with a Film Perspective.
It seems that I am not the only one who has been trolling Deviantart for hidden treasure. Blogporno which i found thanks to Fleshbot is celebrating "naked man week" with lots of images from my found at my favorite place.
"Wolfgang Tillmans is one of the most popular, influential, and widely discussed contemporary photographers. He was born in Remscheid, Germany, in 1968, but he has spent most of his working life in London, and in 2000 he was awarded the Turner Prize. He is celebrated for the disconcerting range of his subject matter, which includes portraits, still lifes, landscapes, pure abstractions, documents of youth culture, and what appear to be random snapshots. And he presents his work in an equally wide-ranging fashion: images can be taped or pinned to the wall and appear in all sorts of sizes and positions; they can be laid out on tables or framed; they sometimes hang adjacent to photocopies. Politics, sex, beauty, and squalor float in and out of his pictures, creating an ambiguous tone that feels altogether contemporary." I just want Wolfgang Tillmans to love me.
In his fifty-five years, George Quaintance made a significant eclectic impact on a multitude of aspects of American culture. He was born June 3, 1902 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, as the only son of a farming family. His parents allowed him to develop his artistic potential and supplied him with paint, brushes and fine art training. Quaintance moved to New York at the age of 18 to study at the prestigious Art Students' League. While there, he also began the study of classical and jazz dancing, tap, and tango and briefly appeared with an acclaimed and widely traveled vaudeville dance troupe. Using a pseudonym, he also drew pin-up girls for many movie magazines. By 1925, he turned his attention again to painting and produced introspective landscapes, among other subjects. In the 1930’s, his art started to attract people’s attention. In this decade, he involved himself with photography, magazine editing, interior decorating, stage design, and hair design, with clients such as Marlene Dietrich, Jeanette McDonald, and Helen Hayes. He also painted portraits of notable people, including foreign diplomats, Washington politicians, society wives, and movie stars. By 1937, he was the highest paid illustrator for Gay French Magazine, earning more than fifty thousand dollars a year. About 1947, he moved to Los Angeles and painted and photographed many handsome young men for physique and bodybuilding magazines. In the early 1950s he moved to a ranch in Phoenix where he loved the cowboy image so much he adopted it himself, wearing tight Levi’s and western shirts with exotic boots. Quaintance, an artist who drove himself to create and to make his work financially successful, died of a heart attack at age 55 on November 8, 1957. Today, the work of George Quaintance is difficult to find and his original paintings are rare and so highly desired that they generally pass from collector to collector without ever being offered on public art markets. Information contained in this biographical sketch is from copyrighted research material collected by John Waybright and Ken Furtado, who are co-authoring a comprehensive George Quaintance biography. Reprinting without permission is illegal. The authors may be contacted at waybrightj@comcast.net or ken_furtado@earthlink.net
We have all seen the art of Beau , the Los Angeles painter responsible for countless magazine illustrations and book covers.
It seems Anonymous was the most prolific gay artist ever. Images from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. All from the Homoerotic Art Museum .
What exactly can one boy do with a few wigs and a video camera? Well, if you have the imagination of independent film-maker David J. White, you can do quite a great deal. I've been wanting to dedicate a post to David White pretty much since the inception of this blog, but I've had a problem in deciding what exaclty to present, and there is quite a lot to choose from. So I emphatically urge you to go to David's site and check it out for yourself, but beware: you may well, as I do, spend the better part of days looking at his offerings. He is only twenty years old and quite prolific: obviously very dedicated to his craft. He's part Warhol, part Fellini, part LaBruce, part Carol Burnett. I want to be David White's friend, but I'm not sure if he has any use for friends. This cat clearly knows how to entertain himself. I also think he should portray Courtney Love in the next biopic.
