{"id":1808,"date":"2007-04-29T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:03:11","slug":"the-art-of-ejaculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/29\/the-art-of-ejaculation\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of ejaculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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left: Sperman (2007) by Cary Kwok; right: Here Cums the Spider (2007) by Cary Kwok.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 comic-book characters shooting their respective loads. Kwok’s work has been shown recently at the Herald Street<\/a> gallery, London, and Hard Hat<\/a>, Geneva.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> to Dana\u00eb’s impregnation by Zeus<\/a> 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Jack-Off Sculpture Sells For $15 Million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Coition of Hemisected Man and Woman (1492) by Leonardo da Vinci.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lubricity (1902) by Alfred Kubin. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Der Bote (The Messenger) (1908) from Erzahlungen Am Toilettentische by Franz von Bayros.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Self-portrait with Two Women (1920) by George Grosz. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Bookplate by and for the library of Angel Mendez (1950).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Untitled XIV (ejaculation in trajectory) (1989) by Andres Serrano. <\/em><\/p>\n

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My Lonesome Cowboy (1998) by Takashi Murakami.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Another view, with the painting Spring Liquid in the background. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Eternity (2007) by Cary Kwok.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bukkake Tsunami (2007) by Norbert Bisky.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mis Leches (2009) by Felix D’Eon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fountain (2011) by John Coulthart.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wild Boys (2014) by John Coulthart.<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Michael Petry’s flag<\/a>
\n\u2022 Super-objects! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

left: Sperman (2007) by Cary Kwok; right: Here Cums the Spider (2007) by Cary Kwok. 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 … Continue reading “The art of ejaculation”<\/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":[2,30,9,5,44,12,41],"tags":[1592,2009,11995,2940,378,298,2942,2280,2941,2945,2944,2943],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-comics","category-gay","category-painting","category-photography","category-sculpture","tag-alfred-kubin","tag-andres-serrano","tag-angel-mendez","tag-cary-kwok","tag-felix-deon","tag-franz-von-bayros","tag-george-grosz","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-michael-petry","tag-murat-aydemir","tag-norbert-bisky","tag-takashi-murakami"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}