Art4gays

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Art4gays is a tumblr of artworks, as seen Through the eyes of a gay male. It is about attraction... a strange phenomenon where one’s being is directed by an unseen something that has no words. It directs us to something undefinable too. “Beauty.” What is this elusive stuff? What is it made of? Find out if you can.

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sillem0

La obra de Dejana Backo demuestra que la limitación física impulsa la innovación. Pintar con los pies obliga al cerebro a reconfigurar patrones, transformando la fricción creativa en una narrativa de resiliencia. Aquí, el valor trasciende la técnica para resaltar una narrativa de resiliencia.

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Clothes for the traditional Catalan dance of Devils made by Núria Fortuny, posted by her on her Instagram account nuriafortunyart.

The Devils' Dance (in the Catalan language, ball de diables) is a very popular traditional dance from Catalonia. It is documented since the Middle Ages, when it was used to tell the story of Good vs. Evil. People from the town or neighbourhood (non-professional dancers, just whoever wants to participate) join the groups and freely dance it on the streets for the holidays of festa major and Corpus. They carry maces with spinning firecrackers on them and dance to the sound of drums (as you can see in this post).

The clothes are made of a thick brown material that covers as much of the skin as possible, to avoid getting burned. The clothes are painted with devilish symbols that usually involve fire. In these images, you can see the clothes that groups commissioned to Núria Fortuny, which she painted in her artistic style based on the traditional motifs, mythological beats (bestiary figures also take part of the festa major dances) and her reinterpretation of them.

You can find more of her art (not just devils' dance clothes, also mural and canvas paintings, often also based on festa major holidays dances and figures) in her Instagram: nuriafortunyart.

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This is the home of the artist Ignasi Esteve. Located in the town of Bàscara (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia), this house was built in the 19th century and Ignasi Esteve has painted frescoes in its walls, furnished it with his grandfather's furniture, and planted old varities of roses and citrics in its garden. The sculpture of a woman laying down in the garden is Mediterrània by his teacher Domènec Fita.

The house is his home and studio, but he has turned it into a work of art.

Photos by Jordi Borràs Abelló published in La Mira.

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Gràcies @thymatorisim! @bevliskin

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Paul de Vos (Flamish/Belgian, 1595-1678) and studio

A falcon, parrots and other birds, circa 1654

Oil on canvas, 170 x 181 cm

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Eastern Roman Mosaic in the Church of Qasr Libya, Northern Libya. It dates back to the Reign of Justinian I The Great.

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By Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831-1889)

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Louis Fratino

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Georg Bellows, 1923 - Business-men’s bath

When Bellows first arrived in New York in 1904 he stayed at the YMCA, and this print is a recollection of his initial experiences of the city almost twenty earlier. The subject is a humorous reworking in reverse of the composition of an earlier lithograph, The Shower-Bath of 1917.

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