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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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    Glassware, Still Life with a Porrón, 1906

    Pablo Picasso – A painter among poets, A poet among painters

    September 27, 2022
    graffiti-kunst

    Vom Vandalismus zur Verehrung – Amerikanische Graffiti-Kunst erobert die Galerieszene

    June 11, 2026
    Ansicht der Muhammed Rahim Khan II. Madrasa, 1876

    Die islamische Kunst ist weder die Kunst einer Nation noch eines Volkes, sondern die Kunst des Islam

    January 6, 2022
  • 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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    Isaac Levitan

    Sentiers, eau et ciel : l’univers symbolique de Isaac Levitan

    April 17, 2026
    Hiroshige

    Hiroshige – Der letzte große Meister der Kunst des Ukiyo-e

    January 26, 2023

    LES COCOTTES DE LA BELLE ÉPOQUE

    April 4, 2014
  • 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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    Etch a Sketch

    December 18, 2013

    The Art of Utamaro

    February 3, 2021
    16th century icon-painting

    Echoes of Faith in 16th-Century Icon-Painting

    April 21, 2026
  • 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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    Luca Giordano, The Marriage of the Virgin, c. 1688

    The Virgin Mary from Early Medieval to Early Modern Art

    December 13, 2022
    Monet

    Nature in motion – The timeless vision of Claude Monet

    June 3, 2025
    The art of Death, Hindu

    The Art of Death: Exploring Reincarnation and Enlightenment

    October 13, 2026
  • 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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    Jean Cocteau: Les Voleurs d’enfants

    Alfred Sisley: Colouring landscapes by emotions

    May 5, 2017
    Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumnus (Emperor Rudolf II), 1590. Oil on wood, 70.5 x 57.5 cm. Skoklosters Slott, Bålsta (Stockholm)

    Arcimboldo’s Artistic Harvest

    January 23, 2015
    Marc Chagall, Study for ‘The Firebird’ Ballet Curtain, 1945. New York City Ballet

    Chagall Does it All: The James Franco of the Art World

    May 25, 2016
  • 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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    Russische Wassermaler

    Wasser in der russischen Malerei: Symbol, Geist und Spiegelung

    July 23, 2026
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    Das Bauhaus

    April 19, 2019
    Glassware, Still Life with a Porrón, 1906

    Pablo Picasso – A painter among poets, A poet among painters

    September 27, 2022
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