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The paintings of Pennsylvania born artist Philip Gladstone seems like a man’s poetic journey of self discovery. The paintings show men, always naked and vulnerable, searching for the links between the child and the man, the connection of a human to the web of life. The website also contains a collection of the artist’s work on paper, all in the same symbolistic, poetic vein.

The interesting website is very well worth a visit, and I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visti Philip Gladstone’s website.]]>info@gayartblog.comNone2009-05-11T11:15:48+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/b1469f3dd255d06b7804df19e6668787-52.html#unique-entry-id-52http://www.gayartblog.com/files/b1469f3dd255d06b7804df19e6668787-52.html#unique-entry-id-52

Italian artist Diego Tolomelli works in stained glass in his Rome studio, where he makes art in the following categories: Interiors, religious and erotic stained glass. It’s kind of nice to present the spirit and the body together in this way, and a idea that has been taken further in the artworks. The juxtaposition of the formal, line-dominated glasswork with the more naturalistic nudes is rather interesting visually, even if the nudes could be better drawn. What really make the art worth a look is the artistic idea of the meeting between stained glass, with it’s connotations a medieval spirituality where the body is almost irrelevant, if not sinful, with directly erotic motives from the more private sphere.

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Using himself as an artistic medium, Matthew Dayler photography is strong and interesting works of art. Pursuing a number of fresh, sub-culture type of artistic styles, from sketxh drawing and comic superheroes to graffiti and colourised photographs, Dayler creates a neo-pop-art for our time. The subject matter ranges from the mildly erotic to vibrant expressions of protest, strength and induviduality. Well worth a visit, his online gallery presents an interesting artist that is ever exploring new ways of expression.

I rate Matthew Dayler’s online gallery five out of six stars, you can visit it by clicking on the picture or on this link.]]>info@gayartblog.comNone2009-05-30T17:54:00+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/4dafb0b1a5761d090148147a398d6636-50.html#unique-entry-id-50http://www.gayartblog.com/files/4dafb0b1a5761d090148147a398d6636-50.html#unique-entry-id-50

Very expertly drawn and painted, the artworks of Californian born Wes Hempel seems to come from the age of the French salon. With flare he draws inspiration from a variety of sources - from David up to Bouguereau. Some paintings are just reworkings of paintings from these artists, but the larger part of the them are drawn from the artists own, rather surrealistic artistic vision, making them much more interesting.

The website also includes a collection of beautiful works on paper, most of them painted on the pages of old books.

I rate the website four out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Wes Hempel’s online gallery.

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The online gallery of Jack Balas is a very interesting collection of art. In his artistically certain and very recognisable style, he gives us a huge collection of paintings, where charmingly painted gym jocks (in a kind of Norman Rockwell style) are combined with symbols, text, sketches and objects into a mystical retro-pop-art. Thanks to this artistic treatment of the nudes, the paintings are lifted from what could have been just another collection of male nude paintings, into narrative works of art.

The web site also includes a gallery of his various photographic projects, most of them quite interesting, as well as some sculpture and installation work. But it is the many interesting paintings that one remembers after visiting the site.

I rate the Jack Balas web site 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit his online gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comNone2009-05-12T17:23:00+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/d4cf77d9a622e2e0f6c2308cdb70bf14-48.html#unique-entry-id-48http://www.gayartblog.com/files/d4cf77d9a622e2e0f6c2308cdb70bf14-48.html#unique-entry-id-48

The homepage of US artist Patrick M, Webb is wholly dedicated to his large series of “Punchinello-paintings”. Resurrecting this tragicomic character from 17th century Italian commedia-della-arte, Webb casts Punchinello as a gay man in 20th-century America. Poignant and beautiful, the paintings tell the story of every facet of this often lonely man’s life, from solitary nights in front of the television, spying on other men in the showers at the gym, or simply at work or on the subway. Most pictures are painted in a style reminiscent of socialistic working class heroism from the forties, making a hero of this lonely struggler. Some moments of happiness and triumph occur, as when he meets other “punchinelli”, has an affair, celebrates gay pride, or when he just happily juggles colourful balls in a sunny park. The paintings together form a beautiful telling of the heroism of going through an ordinary, un-glorious life – as part of an often despised group of society.

I rate the Punchinello-series a full six stars.

http://www.patrick-webb.com/]]>info@gayartblog.comNone2010-02-19T17:18:00+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/b186c1030ba50bcdc4ccc31108c4f883-45.html#unique-entry-id-45http://www.gayartblog.com/files/b186c1030ba50bcdc4ccc31108c4f883-45.html#unique-entry-id-45

Poetic and serene, the paintings of the Marocco-born artist Michael Onona is a series of interesting works about vulnerability, personality and courage. Mostly well executed and composed, the paintings strip men and women of their props and clothes to show the human being behind. A fat transvestite, a sleeping baby, a nude woman with wings are all respectfully presented as interesting and real persons. Some of the (preumably older) paintings have a less certain painterly style, but all in all the body of work is well worth a look.

The very simple and stark web site makes the art easy to persue, even though one could get a better impression of the artworks by presenting them at a larger size.

I rate the Michael Onona web site four out of 6 stars, you can visit the online gallery by clicking here.]]>info@gayartblog.comNone2009-05-08T08:52:32+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/84179945b0db7e1fca39a3f3b14f03d1-41.html#unique-entry-id-41http://www.gayartblog.com/files/84179945b0db7e1fca39a3f3b14f03d1-41.html#unique-entry-id-41
Even if they may not exactly be the «masterpieces» the artist’s own home-page humorously names them, the artworks of Georgia-based artist Tony de Carlo is nevertheless interesting and well worth a perusal. The naivistic, Latin-American style fits perfectly with the idyllic and poetic subject matter, making the artworks seem like illustrations from a gay fable or fairy tale, peopled with flower-crowned saint, curious dogs and naked men eying the viewer seriously with large eyes. de Carlo makes a strange and mysterious universe, talking to us of peace, acceptance and life’s hidden mysterious meanings.

I rate Tony de Carlo’s «Masterpieces» 4 out of six stars.

To visit his online callery, click here.



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The gallery of Virginia artist David Alan Crumpler is worth a look. He is a truly excellent draughtsman, rendering his sensitive portraits and male nudes with soft pencil shades and lightning, and very beautiful lines. Even the perfect-bodied nudes seem more like portraits of real people, with character and personality, than simple idealisations.

The artistic depth of the artworks is not great however, and after a while one gets a bit bored by their similarity. But I assume that these artworks aren’t actually made to hang together as a large exhibition. They are presumably meant to hang alone, for example as a commissioned portrait of a loved one – and in that capacity they are nice, very proficient – and quite likeable in their straightforward way.

I rate David A Crumplers gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit his website: http://www.muscleart.org/malenudes.htm

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More like an artist’s sketchbook than a gallery proper, the website of the Iowa based artist Timothy J Wright is fun, unpretentious – and mostly quite interesting. The floating collages (shown here) are very good, as well some of the very poetic, introspective watercolours in “The Male Form” part of the gallery. Some beautiful photos, witty drawings of “Monster Cocks” – the small website is really awash with ideas for artworks. It would be very interesting to see the artist take his ideas further, and develop them as deeper works of art. But even with this in mind, this charming and very personal site is well worth a visit, and leaves me curious for what this interesting artist will think of next.

I rate Timothy J Wrights gallery three out of six stars.

Click here to visit his home page: http://timothyjwright.com/home.html]]>info@gayartblog.comNone2009-05-07T20:27:26+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/4ef5096a5961ce5629a0dc8567c1d51c-37.html#unique-entry-id-37http://www.gayartblog.com/files/4ef5096a5961ce5629a0dc8567c1d51c-37.html#unique-entry-id-37
The website is actually rather frightful. A soundtrack of cheesy guitar music, and a picture browser that on my browser actually stretches the artworks to fit the display space leaves a lot to be desired from the presentation of the artworks.

The paintings are quite nice, though. Expressionistically painted with a quick and bold brush, they seem like snapshots from a never-ending idyllic summer, with the bodies of naked and half naked men forever glittering in the sun. The nakedness seems natural and innocent in an almost pre-sexual way, but with awakening gay longings simmering close to the surface. Speaking of acceptance and harmony, the myriad of likeable artworks are well worth a look.

I rate Steven Corry’s gallery four stars out of six.

Click here to visit Stephen Corry’s gallery on Picture Trail:
http://www.PictureTrail.com/gid18159879
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Certainly not bashful, Canadian artist Zachary Logan uses his own body as subject in his art. Frank and strangely poetic, his over life-sized paintings and drawings seems to be not so much about narcissistic self-exposure as about an honest and unafraid display of the artist as a vulnerable – and even ludicrous - human being. Draughtsmanship and painterly technique seems to fall easy for the youngish artist, letting the artworks subject shine unencumbered through. While the drawings displayed in the online gallery seems a bit stiff and similar, the paintings are quite interesting and makes the gallery well worth a visit.

I rate the Zachary Logan gallery a five stars out of six possible.

You can see some of Zachary Logans artworks here:
http://www.craigscottgallery.com/index.php?sec=2&artist_id=15

or read an interview with the artist in Yatzer here: http://www.yatzer.com/1424_zachari_logan%27_s_interview_at_yatzer
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Using what he calls a «glamorization technique», the artworks of artist Fred Pyrczak make interesting statements about the nature of male beauty. The technique makes the portraits look like male versions of heavily retouched Hollywood divas from the 40s and 50s, a treatment normally reserved for portraits of women. Beautiful in a kitchy, Pierre&Gilles-like way, the portraits are quite interesting and well worth a look. The online gallery is a bit quirky in it’s navigation, but more importantly: it gives the artworks plenty of room.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit ZakImages by Fred Pyrczak.

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The artwork of MIchael Broderick is caracterized by an extreme beauty of line. With excellent draughtmanship, the drawing’s sinous outlines and Art Nouveau-like compositions contrasts interestingly with the often rather brutal subject matter. Even though the gallery in total may seem a bit similar and monotonous after a while, it is worth a visit - if only for the originality of expression and beauty of the drawings.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Michael Broderic’s Hottlead gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-05-21T09:57:25+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/e73fc406e1b8d78f0c0f21fcbb4e1f34-31.html#unique-entry-id-31http://www.gayartblog.com/files/e73fc406e1b8d78f0c0f21fcbb4e1f34-31.html#unique-entry-id-31

The online portfolio of the Washington DC based artist Scott G. Brooks is hard to classify. Charmingly executed pencil drawings, and paintings with a sweet, childlike look belie their dark, twisted content of sexuality, disfiguration and wierdness. Brooks' background as an illustrator of childrens' picture books is evident in the drawings, and this combined with the contrast of the very somber thematic content of the artworks give them a very special, haunting quality. Not all are obviously gay-themed, but an undercurrent of outsiderish gayness runs through it all. It's facinating on the whole, grotesque and funny - and expertly executed. Scott G. Brooks' online portfolio is very well worth a prolonged visit, I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Scott G. Brooks' homepage.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-05-21T09:55:03+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/f2dfede9e4bae6d9f360913da8d6d154-30.html#unique-entry-id-30http://www.gayartblog.com/files/f2dfede9e4bae6d9f360913da8d6d154-30.html#unique-entry-id-30

The website of the South African artist Moxy Hart is a mixed pleasure, but a pleasure none the less. A fun and charmingly refreshing interface leads the way to four galleries, consisting of nudes, portraits, drawings and something called the "Good Phallus". This last one is very original: mobiles made of coloured or transparent perspex, in the form of be-winged penises floating about under a peaceful cloud. Perhaps not the thing for everyone's drawing room, the artistic contrasting of the "forbidden" motive with the innocence of the object and material makes them interesting pieces of art on their own right - as well as good fun of course. As for the other sections, the drawings is not too good actually, but the nudes and especially the portraits are worth a visit. Mr Hart looks like an artist that has a lot of interesting things coming if he lets him self loose. As it is the gallery is still well worth a look.

I rate the gallery 2 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Moxy Hart's online gallery.

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As a site dedicated to black&white erotic photos of older, heavyset men, Among Gentlemen does not deliver too much. A total of 17 photos, and most of them rather bland, leaves this reviewer mostly cold. But this is not the complete picture: A small handful of the pictures are very good, a couple is arrestingly excellent. So if you have the patience to sort the chaff from the wheat, the site is worth a look. It seems that the gallery is very new, so one can hope that the proportion of good photos will increase over time.

I rate the gallery 2 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Among Gentlemen gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-05-21T09:52:49+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/7fdfad93a8d8b5924e92f42918b375bc-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://www.gayartblog.com/files/7fdfad93a8d8b5924e92f42918b375bc-28.html#unique-entry-id-28

The AfriBoy gallery is actually much more interesting than it looks at the first glance. Rather messily presented, the website gives little away of the many interesting artworks the site actually carries. The many paintings, watercolours and drawings in both ink and pencil are presented as rather uninteresting details, that seldom does credit to the whole piece of art. So it all runs down to clicking away on the thumbnail to see if a good - or not so very good at all - artwork turns up. The site is not uninteresting, with original thought in both the artworks and the accompanying text. A better presentation, and a heavier sorting of which artworks to include or not would have helped the gallery enormously.

The most interesting part of the site is the section "Notebooks" - where you actually can flip through the artist's sketchbooks on your own. A good idea, which gives a very special intimacy to seeing the artworks.

I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the AfriBoy gallery of African male erotic art.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-04-30T16:21:45+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/870b43a34b2680c7f0de5f1546779b1b-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.gayartblog.com/files/870b43a34b2680c7f0de5f1546779b1b-27.html#unique-entry-id-27The website of Dutch artist Peter Welleman is a fun and unpretentious collection of his gay comic drawings. Quite cheeky some of them, all are drawn in a charmingly simple style. Not all innocent fun (well, maybe innocent isn't the correct word here), some of the drawings raises a more political tone. Many of the drawings sadly have only Dutch text, but the rest make the site well worth a visit. A refreshing site on the whole, I give it 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Peter Welleman's gay cartoon gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-04-25T11:42:52+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/81b9673f87ad37fd97d8ea0fc2b73971-26.html#unique-entry-id-26http://www.gayartblog.com/files/81b9673f87ad37fd97d8ea0fc2b73971-26.html#unique-entry-id-26

Having reviewed the artwork of Paul Richmond earlier in this blog, it is interesting to note that in this new online gallery his work is much easier accessible. In addition to building a flashy but professional looking front-end for the gallery, a clearer sorting of the artworks makes visiting the gallery to a much better experience than earlier. The most interesting work is found in the gallery "Paintings", where poetic watercolours and collages give a sensitive treatment of questions of identity and sexuality. The "Cheesecake" gallery is all kitschy fun, a irreverent pastiche of American commercial painting in an Rockwellian vein. The gallery's heavy use of Flash makes the site rather slow, but it's very well worth a visit and recieves 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Paul Richmond Studio.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-04-25T11:21:49+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/c4cb4f094f250f7a641b1ed2c12546a6-25.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.gayartblog.com/files/c4cb4f094f250f7a641b1ed2c12546a6-25.html#unique-entry-id-25

The online gallery of the Californian artist Sam Frazier is neatly divided into two large sections: Photo and "Artwork" - which here doesn't at all mean that the photos aren't works of art. Neither section is uninteresting, both have many good artworks. The photos are mainly shot as to look as candid, intimate pictures of close friends or lovers in what mostly looks like their private lives. In the bondage-inspired "Restraint" section of the photos, the surroundings are naturally a bit rougher, but here as well the photos mostly give a feeling more of peace and harmony than of violent restraint. An interesting contrast, and in the other sections the feeling of snapshots of gays having a good time with their loved ones is very marked. All with a nice sense of composition and colour, the photos are well worth a look.

The "artworks" are divided into two sections again, photo collages and other collages. The photo based section is by far the most interesting, with its mystical, dreamlike quality. The incorporated nudes take on a symbolic, often haunting quality in the artworks, making this section possibly the one most worth a prolonged visit.

TrustFido.com has much interesting art from a very prolific artist, and I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit TrustFido.com.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-02-18T08:32:08+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/84f32281db7c9f44eb2ea38bb898ae82-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.gayartblog.com/files/84f32281db7c9f44eb2ea38bb898ae82-24.html#unique-entry-id-24

The Mannenknipwerk web gallery is something as unusual as traditional decorative paper cuttings - with a homoerotic twist! Technically accomplished, the delicate cuttings make an interesting contrast between the innocent old-fashioned technique and the controversiality of homoerotic art. Celebrating the beauty of the form of the male nude, the artworks make the homoerotic content seem idyllic in the vein of greek vase painting. A larger contrast between subject matter and technique would have made the collection even more interesting, but it is well worth a short visit as it is.

The website also has a collection of charming pencil drawings, but it is the paper cuttings that stick in memory.

Mannenknipwerk is quite original, and worth a look. I give it 3 out of 6 stars.

You can visit the website of this anonymous belgian artist by clicking here.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2008-02-17T22:06:23+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/7a3c78967545936b3ca9c47b18714616-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.gayartblog.com/files/7a3c78967545936b3ca9c47b18714616-23.html#unique-entry-id-23

The online gallery of German artist Rinaldo Hopf is well worth a visit, even though the navigation is rather quirky. The artworks spans over a series of styles including watercolours, photography, installation art and painting, and some still shots from an art film. It's all actually good, and some of it more so. The paintings are not his best work, but the photography is mostly excellent, ranging from portraits of drag queens and queer celebrities to traditional nudes and more "arty", and indeed better, seminudes. What looks like the strongest work of the artist is his installation work, which seems to be very strong and intriguing. This kind of art is not easy to assess from photos, and I´d truly love to see some of them live sometime.

Mr Hopf's website is very well worth a visit, and I give it five out of six possible stars.

Click here to visit Rinaldo Hopf's online gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-12-10T21:28:34+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/3c26af089cdf22a820d1ca76d60f0512-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.gayartblog.com/files/3c26af089cdf22a820d1ca76d60f0512-22.html#unique-entry-id-22

What can one say about the art of Ted Fusby? A lot of it is not very good technically, and the variation in themes between the artworks doesn't seem to be very large either. But. But. Taking a closer look at the artworks reveals their originality. Charmingly similar to children's books illustrations, the art is executed in soft watercolours and coloured pencils. The subjects are often touchingly portrayed, and looks like portraits of persons (ok - men) close to the artist, laughing, having fun, or looking shyly away. Not all pictures are of this quality, as some are quite trite, but the main body is actually quite appealing and interesting. Well worth a prolonged visit if you can bear with sorting the chaff from the wheat.

I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Ted Fusby's online gallery.

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The fine art photography of French artist Partick Gerbier seems at first to fall into the classical, "tasteful" niche of gay photography. Row upon row of photos of nude, muscular men that are graphically arranged in a photographic studio, shadow and light playing gracefully in black & white over their clean-shaved surfaces. Quite well done actually, but oh so traditional. But this is not all the truth about Gerbier's varied portfolio. His earlier work is a large series of mixed-media work, or to be more precise: painted photographs, where the artist in an expressionistic and original way seems to explore various facets of male energy and character. Well wort a visit!

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

You can visit Patrick Gerbier's home page by clicking on this link.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-12-10T20:54:26+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/58ffbd3d063d819b532baa2af0cac517-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.gayartblog.com/files/58ffbd3d063d819b532baa2af0cac517-20.html#unique-entry-id-20

The art of the South African artist Chris Diedericks is truly excellent. All the more a shame that the web design on his home page is quite unfortunate, as an all but unreadable font in the menu system leaves the visitor guessing his way around the sites messy structure - or leaving in frustration. But the art is actually well worth some hard work. Poetic and sensitive sculptures of male nudes and gay couples, intriguing collages, exciting concept art and delicate drawings is just some of the works of art you can find on the web site.A very talented and prolific artist, and I'd truly love to see more of his work presented in a more proficient way.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars, the art itself is worth a full 6, but as it is it's to hard accessible for the full mark.

You can visit Chris Diedericks by clicking on this link.

]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-11-19T19:53:27+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/0b575c7e7baac3b6641ae6916773aa1f-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.gayartblog.com/files/0b575c7e7baac3b6641ae6916773aa1f-19.html#unique-entry-id-19
Flying Wolf Studio is the creation of Jeff Spicer, a Kentucky based artist specializing in gay and homoerotic art in addition to portrait work. The gallery is not huge, but has a varied and interesting selection of pastels of the nude male body, and brings really excellent workmanship to the quite original artwork. Each artwork is well commented by the artist, adding further interest to the images. It would be interesting to see some more work by this artist, perhaps extending the scope of the subject matter further. The gallery is very well worth a visit for its originality of subject matter, and the beauty of some of the pastels.

I rate the gallery four out of six stars.

Click here to visit Jeff Spicer's Flying Wolf Studio.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-11-19T19:37:08+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/7ab12e28858392eeb537b792a9c89d77-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://www.gayartblog.com/files/7ab12e28858392eeb537b792a9c89d77-18.html#unique-entry-id-18
The online gallery of British artist Matthew Stradling is a cornucopia of male nudes, flowers and jewels. Celebrating gay life in an excess of kitchy fun, he makes a painterly nudge to artists such as Pierre&Gilles. The paintings are separated into categories such as Luxury, Stillness, Portraits and Mirror, with an Erotica section to boot. The best paintings are in the Mirror section, which has truly excellent works of art. The other categories are also original and not at all uninteresting, but seems to have a higher proportion of earlier work of lesser, if not slight, technical merit. But even so the whole gallery is well wort a visit, and have plenty of gems.

I rate the gallery 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Matthew Stradling's online gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-11-06T23:32:31+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/f0d982210a947a6c60052cbe5235b322-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.gayartblog.com/files/f0d982210a947a6c60052cbe5235b322-17.html#unique-entry-id-17
The gallery of paintings by DannyBoy, aka Danny Babineaux comes across as something rather extraordinary. All of the paintings are dedicated to portraying one gay stereotype, the "daddy" bear. For admirers of this type of men, the paintings will probably be worth a look, as many of them are quite poetic and sensitive. Some of the paintings looks like private portraits of close friends, which adds to their sensitivity of expression. However, the gallery is diminished in value by the brash selling on the website, taking attention from the artworks themselves. One can hardly help feeling that a by a better presentation of the artworks, and a heavier editing of which artworks that is shown, would make the gallery very much more worth a visit. As it is - it's just for the bears.

I rate the gallery three out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Dannyboy Studio.
]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-11-05T21:48:25+01:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/dc5d5713072ff7fee290a6a4853bb792-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.gayartblog.com/files/dc5d5713072ff7fee290a6a4853bb792-16.html#unique-entry-id-16
Dreamlike in their quality, Bill Travis' photographs of male nudes, gay couples and haunting cityscapes seem to bridge the gap between painting and photography. Sculptural close-ups of the naked male form or portraits of friends sleeping are all been given a painterly surface finish, giving the images a similarity to 19th century art photography. The gallery is not so large as to make the viewer tire of the admittedly related images. As it is the Bill Travis Photography site is a welcome respite from the main stream of gay photography sites, and well worth a visit.

I rate the gallery five stars out of 6.

Click here to visit Bill Travis' gallery page.

]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-10-14T21:24:48+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/034ed36dca398f03b9a95c4633eb386d-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.gayartblog.com/files/034ed36dca398f03b9a95c4633eb386d-15.html#unique-entry-id-15
One should think that photographs of naked men, heavily oiled, should be rather boring and staid. But not necessarily so on Peter Arnold's site "Men Exposed", promoting his photo book of the same name. With an eye for abstraction and geometry, Arnold make the nude models appear as Mappelthorpian idealizations of men. Some of the abstractions are very beautiful indeed, the portrait are all quite good, but the plainer nudes look a bit standardized after a while. Well worth a visit, even though one is left with the question of how much of the men is real and how much was photoshopped.

I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

You can visit Peter Arnold's MEN EXPOSED gallery by clicking here.
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Jacques Sultana is a french artist, painting very accomplished male nudes. Some of the paintings are so technically good as to be almost photo-realistic. That is fascinating in it self, and the subject matter make the paintings appear like private photos of a lover or dear one. Not bad at all, and very well worth a look. But in the length the gallery pales to just a parade of naked men, with nothing much more to them. I'd love to see some other work by the artist, though - he is very talented.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

You can visit the Jacques Sultana's gallery by clicking here.
]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-10-14T11:12:06+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/e97e38036339a282e3e1b10833130d64-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.gayartblog.com/files/e97e38036339a282e3e1b10833130d64-13.html#unique-entry-id-13
Steve Walker's gay themed art deal with the romance and longings of gay men. Men staring out to sea together, secretly touching, cutting each others hair - a strangely peaceful and evocative body of work. The painting technique could be freer, as it borders to magazine illustration on the earlier work, but on the the later work is quite good. A nice and interesting body of art on the whole, and well worth a visit.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

You can visit the Steve Walker art gallery by clicking here.
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Chris Kromater has a very interesting portfolio of work. His art photography of the male nude really redefines the genre, making poetic and beautiful art on the way. The website is - a bit strange - but after fiddling about for a while, one sees that the interface actually matches the sensitivity and mystery of the images quite well. The photos varies from geometric compositions created from pieces of men and abstract soft close-ups to recreated renaissance poses by gay porn stars. The site also has a gallery of the artist's installation work. All in all a body of work well wort seeing.

I rate the gallery 6 out of 6 stars.

You can visit the Chris Komater gallery by clicking here.

]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-10-01T18:15:53+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/f7d658a1fefdefae6faa17a8d3283f04-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.gayartblog.com/files/f7d658a1fefdefae6faa17a8d3283f04-10.html#unique-entry-id-10
Paul Richmond is a young American artist, with a very interesting body of work behind him. Even though his earlier work is more ordinary, the later paintings is very original and of excellent quality. His gay art is more about the feelings of being gay, about coming out of the closet, of questions of identity than mere erotic titillation. Quite a fresh voice, and I look forward to seeing more of his art in the future. The home page is only a gallery at absolutearts.com, I think that a web site specially created around his artwork would show the artworks to better advantage.

I rate the gallery 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit his online gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T22:35:33+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/76d8e4917f1fc003545c647014b1c4eb-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.gayartblog.com/files/76d8e4917f1fc003545c647014b1c4eb-9.html#unique-entry-id-9
This is a very large gallery of gay art, containing more than 2500 of Simonsons original paintings and drawings. As an accomplished figurative artist, he infuses his male nudes with character and ambience. The website is a bit confusing to navigate, but then of course, presenting such a large body of homoerotic art in an easy navigable way is quite a challenge. Nice art, and absolutely worth a prolonged visit.

I give it 3 stars out of 6.

Click here to visit the Douglas Simonson Gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T22:33:38+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/77da789d3414ab387ca743403fa6d9c3-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.gayartblog.com/files/77da789d3414ab387ca743403fa6d9c3-8.html#unique-entry-id-8
Romero makes homoerotic art in an original and poetic vein. Ranging from paintings to pastels and drawings, I find his online gallery to be an exciting exploration. Erotic comics in charming pen and wash techniques and paintings of his friends as naked superheroes are just some of the pieces from Romeros homoerotic universe. Some of the earlier (?) work seems a bit uncertain anatomically, but on the whole a very charming and interesting visit.

I give it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit his online gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T22:29:05+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/30d9066d06a44543290241c334c3b7ac-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.gayartblog.com/files/30d9066d06a44543290241c334c3b7ac-7.html#unique-entry-id-7
This is a really large site with plenty of content. Perez’ art ranges from the humorously naive, to figurative paintings and some excellent photography. An adjustment in the site construction has made it harder to navigate than earlier, but all the same it is makes for a very interesting exploration. I like the naive paintings and the photography best, but there’s plenty of other art here to explore as well, including some touching paintings of earlier boyfriends. The site also has a large link index to other pages of gay art, making it a useful starting point for further exploration.

Had the navigation been better I would give it 5 stars, as it is it receives 4 out of 6.

Click here to visit Raphael Perez’ website.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T22:27:25+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/0e9fc126b837e0952d9cc21812462635-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.gayartblog.com/files/0e9fc126b837e0952d9cc21812462635-6.html#unique-entry-id-6
A very prolific artist, Haskins’ gallery of homoerotic art is a collection of the artist’s charcoals and pastels from 1995 up to day. Although the rendering of anatomy has been clearly bettered over the years, Haskins’ constantly has infused his erotic drawings with sensitivity all the way. A very nice (and very large) body of work on the whole, even though the similarity in technique and motif do make the gallery a teeny bit monotone after a longer visit. But absolutely worth a visit, if only for the poetry and sensitivity of his nudes.

I rate it 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the David W. Haskins gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T22:25:40+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/604f3e75d88c8fa192f3ef17c03e67e5-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.gayartblog.com/files/604f3e75d88c8fa192f3ef17c03e67e5-5.html#unique-entry-id-5
Sebastian Moreno paints expressionistic paintings dealing with gay thematics. Quite interesting, I think, and rather unusual for homoerotic art. The paintings seems to deal with large subjects as love, death, life and power and makes the gallery very well worth a good browse. It is a bit confusingly laid out, but patience and some clicking around reveals a large and varied body of work.

I rate it 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Sebastian Moreno’s online gallery.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T22:23:34+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/60c48e60312462262c66c940ee94d351-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.gayartblog.com/files/60c48e60312462262c66c940ee94d351-3.html#unique-entry-id-3
Larry Hill makes delicate pencil drawings of a rather direct sexual nature. The elegant rendering make an interesting contrast to the rawness of the acts shown. Some of the drawings are quite beautiful, and all expertly drawn. Hill also exhibit his paintings, but these are of lower quality, and presumably earlier work. On the website you’ll also find a large collection of “Cocky Impressions” - very cocky indeed as they are prints of his friends erect penises, lashed with paint and pressed against paper. Original, and sort of beautiful in their way, but not everyone’s cup of tea, I suppose! Some of the drawings are available as prints directly from the website.

I rate this gallery 3 stars out of 6 possible.

Click here to visit Larry Hill Art.]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T21:52:58+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/a2a3548c9dbc89a7c1085d5851888d3c-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.gayartblog.com/files/a2a3548c9dbc89a7c1085d5851888d3c-2.html#unique-entry-id-2
Hilton Brown’s online gallery stretches a long way back, with paintings all the way back to 1959 and up to the present. The earlier work is abstract and geometric, but the later work make Brown earn a posting in the Gay Art Blog. He makes energetic watercolours full of expression, most of them is very good indeed. The web site is heavily flash based, and takes some perseverance to navigate. But the art is worth some work.

I rate the Hilton Brown gallery 5 stars out of 6.

Click here to go to his online gallery.

]]>info@gayartblog.comGay Art Blog2007-09-27T19:43:19+02:00http://www.gayartblog.com/files/8d0c8471ea862cfbf4b64f24688a5fc4-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.gayartblog.com/files/8d0c8471ea862cfbf4b64f24688a5fc4-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Hideki Koh is a very talented Japanese artist. Even if his web gallery is only partly in english, and has a slightly cumbersome interface, it is very well worth a visit. Koh’s drawings are very good indeed. Some of them are exceedingly beautiful, even when they have a more disturbingly subject matter. The paintings are of a slightly more varied quality, but most of them is also very well worth the browse. The website also offers some of Koh’s art as free desktop wallpapers, and lots of information about the artist - mostly in Japanese I am afraid.

I rate the gallery five stars out of 6.

Click here to visit Hideki Koh’s online gallery.

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