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  • Thomas Eakins, The Wrestlers, 1899, Gay art
    Art,  English,  Erotic

    Extensive Freedom: The Evolution of Gay Art and Its Impact on Society

    June 20, 2023 / 0 Comments

    Professor James Smalls's works examines the process of creation and allows one to comprehend the contribution of homosexuality to the evolution of emotional perception. In a time when all barriers have been overcome, this analysis offers a new understanding of our civilisation's masterpieces.

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    Sibi jataka, première moitié du VIIe siècle après J.-C.

    L’unité dans la diversité rend la culture indiennes unique

    January 6, 2023

    Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

    October 24, 2017
    Homosexuelle Kunst

    Homosexuelle Kunst : Eine visuelle Geschichte von Liebe und Identität

    February 20, 2025
  • Banquet Scene from North Wall of the Tomb of the Diver, c. 480 BC
    Art,  English,  Erotic

    Gay Art: The evolution of emotional perception in homosexuality

    June 7, 2022 / 0 Comments

    This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art story. In a time when all barriers have been overcome, this analysis offers a new understanding of our civilisation's masterpieces.

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    the devil in art

    The dark side of art: How artists have portrayed the Devil

    October 22, 2024
    Karl Bryullov

    Karl Bryullov: The Genius of Russian Romanticism

    January 8, 2026

    L’Inde et son art

    May 12, 2020
  • Jean Delville. Plato’s Academy, 1898
    English

    Finding true beauty in “Homosexuality in Art”

    June 29, 2021 / 0 Comments

    This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art history in the prestigious University of Maryland, Baltimore. Abandoning all classical clichés and sociological approaches, the author highlights the sensibility particular to homosexuals.

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    The Deadbolt, c. 1777, Shaun Cole

    The Story of Men’s Underwear

    May 11, 2021
    Persian Miniatures Livre

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The clubfoot who loved promiscuous women

    June 16, 2017

    BOOK: HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

    September 18, 2017
  • Woman in Black Stockings, 1913, Erotic Fantasy, Hans-Jürgen Döpp
    English

    Being fantastic with “Erotic Fantasy”

    June 16, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Numerous and diverse points of view come together in this work, demonstrating the multiple aspects that sexuality can present. If nothing is more natural than sexual desire, it is nothing less than the forms by which this desire is expressed and found to satisfy.

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    Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 3)

    February 14, 2019

    Impressionism: The revolution of rebellious artists

    April 19, 2017
    Fra Angelico, The Virgin Mary

    How Fra Angelico shaped the image of the Virgin Mary

    December 16, 2025
  • Homosexuality-in-art-2
    English

    Homosexuality in Art

    February 11, 2020 / 0 Comments

    “What is done in love is well done”  Vincent Van Gogh The text below is the excerpt of the book Homosexuality in Art, written by James Smalls, published by Parkstone International. As a concept, “homosexuality” encompasses a variety of conflicting ideas about gender and same-sex sexual attraction. Its broad range of possible meanings is what makes it such an irresistible, powerful, and ambiguous term nowadays. In its modern sense, “homosexuality is at once a psychological condition, an erotic desire, and a sexual practice.” (David Halperin, “Homosexuality,” in Haggerty, 452) All three senses can and are expressed in artistic or aestheticized form. Homosexuality or, to employ a term of more recent…

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    Gustave Caillebotte – A patron among the Impressionists

    August 24, 2020
    Diana with Nymphs at Play, 1616-1617

    Baroque Art: A Dazzling Symphony of Drama and Emotion

    August 8, 2023

    Shelley’s Art Musings: Are Artists above Human Condition?

    December 4, 2017
  • Art,  Arte Video,  Ebook,  English

    Gender Bending Fashion

    March 27, 2019 / 0 Comments

    The way homosexual love and sensibilities are visually expressed is often a reflection of the status of homosexuals themselves within their particular cultures.

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    January 17, 2014
    Hermine David, 1915 Crayon et aquarelle, 21,5 x 32 cm Musée d’Israël, Jérusalem

    Pour qui sonne le glas

    September 18, 2014
    Meisterwerke der Blumenmalerei

    Vom Zauber der Blumen

    June 30, 2022
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