Have you ever fallen in love with a painting?

Kind of looks like real Jesus

Good god man, it's pornographic!

No, but then I'm not mental or lonely..

Gurl you need to get out more

He's a Napolean supporter!

Is that a Thomas Eakins? Back in the dark ages when studying in the college library I’d get bored and take a break to look at the Thomas Eakins an Thomas Muybridge books. Lots of male nude photography and painting.

A carpenter of Paris by Delacroix?

Yes.

R8 small penis for a black dude

sargent: "man wear laurels"

R9 He has been metaphorically castrated by working as a bellhop in uniform for the crackers.

john koch: the sculptor

david hockney: the room

Gorgeous sexy painting OP! Totally agree.

The original oil of this one hangs by my bed. The colours are more delicate.

richard gerstl: selfportrait, seminude

henry scott tuke: the sunbathers

And the original of this hangs above my desk. It’s pretty radiant; always a nice start to the day.

What is it about John Singer Sargeant? My favorite is his portrait of Dr. Pozzi, a well known French surgeon. I'm sure he was an amazing man.

Sorry, NSFW.

more sargent: male model resting

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R18 Dr. Pozzi was a gynecologist, abdominal surgeon, and a p-hound, which is one reason red is the dominant color in that painting. Among Parisian women, those fingers were famous. He was shot and killed when he refused to attempt surgery to remedy a man's impotence after the man's leg amputation had left the man limp.

I was in love with Dora Maar but quickly forget her when Sarah Huckabee Sanders came on the scene.

Why is so little known about John Singer Sargent's personal life? Did he not keep any diaries or letters? Did he burn them all before he died?

What a life!

Was Sargent a sister?

[quote]Was Sargent a sister?

Please.

I've always been a little captivated by Subleyras's unusual rendition of Charon, ferryman of the dead:

Hottie

R26 I hate it when nude models are captured (photographed/painted) soon after sitting.

You can still see the reddish weals on their buttocks.

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[quote]Why is so little known about John Singer Sargent's personal life?

Helleu said he was “ a frenzied bugger”, and one of his jewish clients said that in Venice he only had eyes for the gondoliers. But everyone then, or their executors, burnt everything as a matter of course. How well I know it. I’m researching a book concerning fugures of the period, and if I had a buck for every missing diary or crucial letter, or clipped or blacked out page, I’d be a rich man.

Jose Ribera's St. Sebastian

“The Intervention of the Sabine Women” by Jacques-Louis David (1799) - fragment

The guy on the far left is hot too.

Oops, didn’t link right. Meant this guy.

Another David. “Leonidas at Thermopylae” (1814)

Did men go to battle in the nude in ancient times? That must have hurt their genitals.

They usually wore leather or metal plates along the body, as light battle armor.

However, the Greeks did compete in Olympics nude.

From Wikipedia, the Celtics went nude.

[quote] Polybius' Histories describe how the Gaesatae, hired by other Celtic peoples, the Boii and Insubres as mercenaries to fight the Romans, stood naked at the head of their army at the Battle of Telamon in 225BC.[1] Diodorus Siculus reported other instances of such combat: "Some use iron breast-plates in battle, while others fight naked, trusting only in the protection which nature gives."[2] Another possible reason for this was to avoid infection of wounds caused by contact with contaminated clothing and debris.[citation needed] Julius Caesar records in his account of the Gallic War that the Gauls went into battle naked save for their weapons.

Op you need to get out of your parents basement and socialize with real people.

Albrecht Dürer had nice low hangers and a fat uncut cock.

Oui.

My favorite David. “Death of Socrates” (1787) - fragment.

The young muscle-bro unwillingly giving Socrates the poisoned cup and closing his eyes in grief is too cute.

Love the way his red tunic falls from his left shoulder, ‘accidentally’ revealing his muscular back, in invitingly erotic peekaboo fashion. The window-light in the Athenian prison cell illuminating his porcelain skin. The tunic drapes around his backside, hinting at a bubble-butt.

On his face, youthful flushed ruddy cheeks and playfully falling curls. His left hand covering his eyes, fighting back tears over his mentor’s death sentence. Muscular right arm obediently, but timidly half-stretched out with the cup of poison, reluctantly accepting the inevitable. But head & body turned away and lowered, unable to watch.

I want to make sweet love to this painting, that’s how much I love it. Sadly, the curator at the Met keeps calling the cops on me :(.

^Btw, Socrates was given the death penalty for ‘corrupting Athenian youth’ (with his philosophical teachings, but possibly also involved him frotting his students’ thighs, as was the fashion back then).

Jacques-Louis David’s painting is like a manifesto in Socrates’ defense, basically saying: “Well, can you blame him?”.

So, did David partake of the homosex? Or at least want to? Or are his superbly fuckable youths merely the expression of the academic tradition in figure painting?

Jeebus but some of you must have the creepiest 'single-aging-homosexual' homes!

Not a painting, but a statue, or movie set piece. From Conan the Destroyer.

Again

Since Pierre et Gilles art is ok for this thread:

I wanna fuck dat ass

[quote] Jeebus but some of you must have the creepiest 'single-aging-homosexual' homes!

How rude! Some of us are not in single-occupancy homosexual homes - but living with our dear mothers!

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Here's a kind of astonishing illustration of Odysseus and the Sirens (from Book 12 of the Odyssey) by N. C. Wyeth, not usually known for his male erotica. There's an underlying Crucifixion motif that he's turned toward the ecstasy of hearing rapturous song. Check out his leg, bucking at the bond, trying to get him overboard.

musical accompaniment

Edvard Munch---the long fingers; the cigarette smoke curling upwards with that upward lighting--and his blue eyes following me around the room when I saw it at MOMA ages ago. Not exactly a hottie but there's still something vaguely erotic about that self-portrait.

That's stupid OP. You can't see his cock.

Munch looks kinda like Vincent Price

no,

Don't click on R14. It's a download (if you have a Mac).

^ Too late!

I could never say that I have fallen in love with a painting. That sounds like Idolatry.

I could NOT countenance that as I'm a Protestant.

Though I'm rather fond of a landscape painting of a place near me.

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[quote]Have you ever fallen in love with a painting?

No, I'm not a psycho.

It's called 'imagination', R60 / R62. Like falling in love with a book or film character.

R53 Like falling in love with a book or film character is just temporary romance.

Anything more than that is obsessive or Dorian Grey-ish

Well, some of us are having a slow year, R64!

Falling in love with a painting is better than essentially co-habiting in a sexless quasi-marriage with one's pet. This is a romantic improvement for many DLers. Don't get in the way of progress.

Fair enough R65.

My ex-husband sometimes commissions stuff from painters and ceramicists. I might do it later when I get the wherewithal.