{"id":11982,"date":"2012-09-06T02:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T01:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2012-09-08T04:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T03:10:39","slug":"the-art-of-michael-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/06\/the-art-of-michael-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Michael Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelleonardartist.com\/pictures\/nude-drawings\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/leonard1.jpg\" alt=\"leonard1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Against the Glass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>British artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelleonardartist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Leonard<\/a> received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/10\/14\/cains-son-the-incarnations-of-grendel\/\">passing mention<\/a> here some time ago for his work as an illustrator in the 1970s. Since that time he&#8217;s concentrated on establishing himself as a portraitist of considerable repute, with a painting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/collections\/search\/portrait\/mw07338\/Queen-Elizabeth-II?LinkID=mp07876&amp;role=art&amp;rNo=0\" target=\"_blank\">the Queen and Spark the Corgi<\/a> hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. These fantastic pencil drawings show a more homoerotic side of his work, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelleonardartist.com\/pictures\/nude-drawings\" target=\"_blank\">a large series of nude (or near-nude) studies<\/a> in which beautiful men (and also a number of women) are perfectly rendered. I&#8217;ve always liked pure pencil drawing, the challenges of doing it to this standard are considerable, as are the pleasures of seeing such a successful application of the simplest of media. The compositions work really well, tight and often cropped to concentrate the attention. Leonard applies a similar approach in his paintings, some of which replicate or echo the pencil works. I prefer the pencils but then I have a predilection for monochome art. You can judge his paintings for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelleonardartist.com\/pictures\/paintings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelleonardartist.com\/pictures\/nude-drawings\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/leonard2.jpg\" alt=\"leonard2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Twisting Torsos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelleonardartist.com\/pictures\/nude-drawings\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/leonard3.jpg\" alt=\"leonard3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>On the Steps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the Glass. British artist Michael Leonard received a passing mention here some time ago for his work as an illustrator in the 1970s. Since that time he&#8217;s concentrated on establishing himself as a portraitist of considerable repute, with a painting of the Queen and Spark the Corgi hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/06\/the-art-of-michael-leonard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Michael Leonard&#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":[2,36,5],"tags":[4024],"class_list":["post-11982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-eye-candy","category-gay","tag-michael-leonard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-37g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982","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=11982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}