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KATARZYNA MURAWSKA-MUTHESIUS>> We all know that the major artists starting from Leonardo,
Michaelangelo, Carvaggio, to more contemporary times, Francis Bacon, David Huckney, Robert
Maplethorpe, etc, etc. are gay. So why don't we actually acknowledge the fact that they
have been gays and the art which has been produced by them and then in a way it was
reused by other artists was the scene of gay aesthetics.
PAWEL LESZKOWICZ>> The expression of men to men action, was also present in art from the
baroque to the renaissance but especially in the early modern art homosexuality was
expressed mainly in various coded and elitist ways, through sort of biblical and mythological
things. This is a copy of painting from *** Renee and the title of the painting is "David".
With the head of Goliath. And in many paintings from the tradition of Michaelangelo, Carvaggio
and *** Renee who have this kind of scene. Showing the beautiful, semi naked, feminine
David holding the head of Goliath. But it also has a very particular expression which
I can call an *** expression. It was interpreted as a sadomasochistic relationship
between two men but it was also a sign of castration and has this homoerotic dimension
not only for the artist but for collectors, princes, kings that were buying those kinds
of paintings, or priests, or popes.
In these paintings, many of those artists where we
don't know their *** identity used the male nude as a form of their conscious or
unconscious *** expression. According to some artistic interpretation and psychological
interpretation, the basis, the roots of our artistic creativity are primeval bisexuality.
And all good art has to be rooted in our primeval bisexuality in the libido. Going back to them
we can really study how their artistic and visual expression is open for conscious and
unconscious *** drives. Sometimes even against the will of the artist but sometimes
the artist experiences his *** longing at the time of when homosexuality was illegal.
St Sebastian was one of the main subject in the early modern history of paintings to represent
passive subjected to sadomasochistic power, male body. In the original story, the St.
Sebastian is a Christian martyr from the first century. When he converted to Christianity,
the imperial ordered the archers, his archers to shoot St. Sebastian and to kill him with
arrows. Only in the Renaissance and in the Baroque, early Baroque artists, many of them
gay, decided to strip him down, to penetrate his body in this way, that is is presented
in a sort of ecstatic passion.