Greek art gay
CHICAGO — Yannis Tsarouchis, the gay Greek artist-provocateur, was well ahead of his time. His mid-20th century paintings explored homoeroticism when such themes were still highly taboo. Dancing in Real Life, a comprehensive survey at Wrightwood 659, shines a much merited spotlight on the creator. Featuring over 200 works, it’s Tsarouchis’s first major show in the Merged States and makes a strong case for noticing this modernist painter as a pioneer of gender non-conforming art.
Born in Piraeus, Greece in 1910, Tsarouchis studied at the Athens College of Fine Arts while working as a stage designer. Among the exhibition’s highlights is the documentation of Tsarouchis’s work for theater and opera, including sketches for stage designs and photographs with the luminaries he collaborated with, including Maria Callas and Samuel Beckett.
Tsarouchis’s painting influences ranged from Byzantine art and El Greco to Western modernism. In works like“The Thinker” (1936), and “Seated Dark-Haired Youth in Overcoat” (1937), he takes up Matisse’s ornamental approach. “The Thinker” also satirizes Rodin’s famous modernist sculpture. In Tsarouchis’s work, the sitter — a immature dark-haired male in a blue stri
Sex, gender, and relationships were viewed very differently in the ancient world across cultures.
Introduction
This gallery explores the expression of same-sex love in the ancient Mediterranean through art. The Mediterranean was home to many cultures and societies, each with differing views on gender, sex, and relationships. Art was used to celebrate cultural ideals of adoration and desire or to subvert social norms.
Every culture represented in this gallery visualized care for in its possess way and had unique expectations of ideal relationships. Some cultures, like the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans, used similar imagery to convey the dynamics of desire.
Mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
Same-sex love and desire are infrequently depicted in ancient Egyptian art, although Egypt did not have any prohibitions against homosexuality. A rare example is the tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, two men who have been speculated to be a couple. In art from their shared tomb, Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were depicted in a manner consistent with married couples in Egyptian art. Affectionate scenes from the tomb, appreciate this wall painting, may be some of the
God Zeus seizes Ganymedes Vase Homosexual Male lover Love Ancient Greek Pottery Ceramic
Handmade in Greece
100% handpainted
only decorative
Dimensions (approximately):
Height: 30 cm (11.8 inches)
Width: 18 cm (7.1 in)
Net Weight: 1,53 kgr (3.32 lb)
Material: Clay - Genuine Ceramic
Decorative only
The original painting of our vase is found on an Attic Red Figure Kylix (475 - 465 B.C.) attributed to the Penthesilea Painter, exchibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Zeus seizes the youth Ganymedes. The god holds a royal, lotus-tipped sceptre and a lightning-bolt rests by his side. The boy holds a rooster.
Ganymede was a Trojan prince in Greek mythology, established for his beauty. According to a myth, Zeus turned into an eagle and abducted Ganymede, bringing him to Mount Olympus. To compensate his father, Zeus offered him the best horses possible, and told him that his son would now be immortal and serve as a cupbearer for the gods, as adv as a significant other for him. Ganymedes was often portrayed as the god of homosexual romance and as such appears as a playmate of the love-gods Eros (Love) and Hymenaios (Hymenaeus) (Marital Love).
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Greek Homosexuality
Homosexuality: sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. In ancient Greece, this was a normal practice.
Introduction
Violent debate, enthusiastic writings, shamefaced silence, flights of fantasy: few aspects of ancient world are so hotly contested as Greek pederasty, or - as we shall see below - homosexuality. Since the British classicist K.J. Dover published his authoritative book Greek Homosexuality in 1978, an avalanche of new studies has appeared. We can discern two approaches:
- The historical approach: scholars are looking for the (hypothetical) roots of pederasty in very ancient initiation rites and strive to reconstruct a development. Usually, a lot of fantasy is required, because our sources complete not often refer to these ancient rites.
- The synchronistic approach: scholars concentrate upon homosexuality in fifth and fourth-century Athens, where it was integral part of social life.
In the present article, we will use the second approach, although we won't ignore the first one. There are many sources of evidence: lyrical poetry, vases, statues, myths, philosophical treatises, speeches, inscriptions, medical texts, tragedies, comedi