Beach Day.

Two new archive additions for the price of one today via artist and photographer Felix D’Eon. These are from his Flickr pages but there’s more work on his website, from sketches to scenes of dreamy homoerotica.

Man with Sword.

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
• The recurrent pose archive
• The men with swords archive

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Felix D’Eon

Peter Reed from a 1977 photo shoot for After Dark magazine. The Flickr page this is from also has photos of the dancer by Robert Mapplethorpe, while the After Dark pools here have a wealth of scanned material ranging from the sexy to the iniquitous, with hair and fashion crimes aplenty.

David Meyer in Salomé.

And if you make your way past the shirtless models and naked ballet boys, the 1975 pages have a nice set of pictures from Lindsay Kemp’s Salomé which I hadn’t seen before.

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Felix D’Eon
• Alla Nazimova’s Salomé
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953

Dancer by Felix D’Eon at his Flickr pages. His artwork based on the photos, including some gay erotica, can be seen at his website.

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953

left: Sperman by Cary Kwok; right: Here Cums the Spider by Cary Kwok (2007).

NSFW, as if you need to be told. It’s almost a commonplace of contemporary art that there are so many artists around today, producing such a volume of work, that any newcomer (as it were) has to find a niche and stay there if they want their efforts to stand out from the crowd. Cary Kwok’s niche seems to be the seminal emission which he depicts in a variety of ways, including showing various well-known comics characters shooting their respective loads. Kwok’s work has been shown recently at the Herald Street gallery, London, and Hard Hat, Geneva.

I like Kwok’s drawings, they’re carefully-done and funny, and serve to remind one that the cum shot is under-represented in art. Despite various Biblical prohibitions, women have been subject to no end of sexual display throughout art history, from copulations with gods in the form of animals to Danaë’s impregnation by Zeus as a literal golden shower. But male sexuality, especially at its most essential moment, has rarely been depicted outside the pages of pornography. The irony of this, as with arguments against erections in art, is that if it wasn’t for ejaculations we wouldn’t be here to discuss their pros and cons. Gay artists have been in the vanguard of addressing the sperm-drought, possibly because they have more than a passing interest in these matters; Michael Petry’s work earlier this year took a lateral view. There’s another sample (as it were) of Cary Kwok’s work below the fold plus some other seminal (as it were) artworks through the ages.

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Coition of Hemisected Man and Woman by Leonardo da Vinci (1492).

Lubricity by Alfred Kubin (1902).

Der Bote (The Messenger) from Erzahlungen Am Toilettentische by Franz von Bayros (1908).

Self-portrait with Two Women by George Grosz (1920).

Untitled XIV (ejaculation in trajectory) by Andreas Serrano (1989).

My Lonesome Cowboy by Takashi Murakami (1998).

Another view, with the painting Spring Liquid in the background.

Eternity by Cary Kwok (2007).

Bukkake Tsunami by Norbert Bisky (2007).

Mis Leches by Felix D’Eon (2009).

Mention should perhaps be made of the photographs of Jeff Koons with ex-wife Ilona Staller but I didn’t include those here since they’re no different t0 the millions of images you’ll find on any porn site. Finally, for those desperate to explore the subject further, there’s Murat Aydemir’s academic text, Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning.

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Michael Petry’s flag
• Super-objects!