{"id":10484,"date":"2011-11-16T02:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2011-11-20T04:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:03:05","slug":"the-art-of-mel-odom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/16\/the-art-of-mel-odom\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Mel Odom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecbiz71.inmotionhosting.com\/%7Emelodo5\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/odom.jpg\" alt=\"odom.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Boys Kiss 2 (2007).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a> has for a long time been the most popular part of this site, that page proving twice as popular as the next post down. In which case I feel I ought to try and add to its contents a bit more frequently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mel Odom is an American artist who since the late 1970s has been highly-regarded as a book and magazine illustrator. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpib.com\/illustra2\/odom.htm\" target=\"_blank\">JVS Publishing<\/a> has more about this side of his output.) For the purposes of this post there&#8217;s male nudity and some homoerotica, of course, in that Art Deco-ish Tamara de Lempicka style that was very popular in the 1980s. For the time being, <a href=\"http:\/\/ecbiz71.inmotionhosting.com\/%7Emelodo5\/\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a> seems to have the best selection of his paintings and drawings. If you need more then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?ss=2&amp;w=all&amp;q=mel+odom+art&amp;m=text\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a> is one place to go searching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys Kiss 2 (2007). The gay artists archive has for a long time been the most popular part of this site, that page proving twice as popular as the next post down. In which case I feel I ought to try and add to its contents a bit more frequently&#8230; Mel Odom is an American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/16\/the-art-of-mel-odom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Mel Odom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,48,44],"tags":[277,3100,5354],"class_list":["post-10484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-painting","tag-art-deco","tag-mel-odom","tag-tamara-de-lempicka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2J6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}