Art postings
art (and design)/photography/architecture postings
art with a significant homoerotic component is labeled as MALE
…..
5/31/10: Progress of a Soul:
Phoebe Anna Traquair
6/13/10: The Commencement pun crop:
Simon Drew’s pun art, inter alia
6/20/10: Puns in polyresin:
Marsha Tosk’s Figures in Speech
6/20/10: From the Simon Drew pun files:
Drew’s pun art
8/21/10: I Married My Dog:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/6494.html
photographer Robert Emery Smith – MALE
11/7/10: Concealing and revealing:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/13873.html
photographers Jack Pierson, Rick Day, Giovanni; Big Penis Book, Jewels – MALE
11/16/10: Concealing and revealing: Fred Goudon:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/15689.html
photography – MALE
11/23/10: Concealing and revealing: more Fred Goudon:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/16353.html
photography – MALE
12/5/10: But is it art?
Dinosaur Comics, with references to captioning of found images, Duchamp, Holzer, and Ruscha
12/6/10: Captioning: more is it art?:
Blunt Cards and Lichtenstein
12/8/10: More captioning as art:
Dante Shepherd
12/14/10: Phallicity: the 16th century:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/16846.html
Arcimboldo-style portraits – MALE
2/20/11: Conceptual art:
Luis Camnitzer
3/23/11: Uomini:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/24289.html
photographer Mariano Vivanco – MALE
3/31/11: George Tooker:
Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Reginald Marsh – MALE
4/12/11: Phallicity: George Condo’s Uncle Joe:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/25639.html
5/2/11: Stanley Stellar’s couch:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/29466.html
photography – MALE
5/4/11: Jack Balas – MALE:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/29998.html
5/4/11: Ed Ruscha:
5/8/11: More conceptual art:
Glen Ligon, Jenny Holzer
5/8/11: Caravaggio:
Caravaggio – MALE
5/10/11: Lari Pittman:
5/11/11: Mel Roberts boys:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/30683.html
photography – MALE
5/12/11: Caravaggio meets Seiwert:
Harald Seiwert – MALE
5/13/11: Cumrades:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/31776.html
Harald Seiwert – MALE
5/13/11: The Flandrin pose:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/32194.html
the Flandrin original, two variants – MALE
5/13/11: Sam Carson:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/32458.html
photography – MALE
5/14/11: Richard de Chazal:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/32689.html
photography – MALE
5/20/11: Saint Sebastian:
representations of Saint Sebastian: Andrea Mantegna, list of others, plus six with homoerotic content: Shinoyama photo, movie still from Derek Jarman, Keith Haring, Pierre et Gilles, Kevin Raye Larson, Isabel Samaras – MALE
5/20/11: Centurians and centaurians:
representations of Chiron – MALE
5/23/11: Another Flandrin pose:
the Flandrin original, plus a variant – MALE
5/27/11: Patti Smith Flandrin:
Robert Mapplethorpe – MALE
6/3/11: Mark Grotjahn:
6/3/11: The Wrestler:
Dudley Vaill Talcott (The Wrestler)
6/25/11: NY logos:
Milton Glaser (NY logo)
7/7/11: Cy Twombly:
7/16/11: Two deaths in the arts:
T. Lux Feininger
7/22/11: Saul Steinberg on activity and stativity:
7/23/11: Lucian Freud:
Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon
8/20/11: Munch up to date:
parodies of “The Scream”
11/16/11: X is the real Y:
A Softer World cartoon
11/17/11: Prairie Flandrins:
Prairie Flandrins – MALE
11/19/11: Rigo at SFMoma:
Rigo 23
11/19/11: Male nude by Rex Slinkard:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/48055.html
Rex Slinkard – MALE
11/19/11: Rex Slinkard:
Rex Slinkard – MALE
11/21/11: Saint Cecilia:
Saraceni, Blanchard
11/27/11: Pierre et Gilles and dicks at play:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/48564.html
P&G, James Bidgood, David LaChapelle – MALE
12/25/11: Poet among the painters:
Rembrandt, Duchamp, Marini, Cézanne
12/29/11: Helen Frankenthaler:
Helen Frankenthaler (and Frank O’Hara)
1/5/12: Three deaths:
Ronald Searle
1/8/12: From the urinal desk at AZBlog:
Clark Sorenson urinals – MALE
1/29/12: Cardinal sin:
Banksy
1/31/12: Just barely not X:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/52466.html
models David Leif, Daniel Garofali – MALE
2/6/12: The cult of beauty:
British Aesthetic Movement, Stanhope, Burne-Jones
2/17/12: Howard Roffman boys:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/53114.html
photographer Howard Roffman – MALE
2/20/12: Antedating:
W.W. Story
2/26/12: Two photographers:
Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman
3/6/12: The twinkmeister:
photographer Howard Roffman – MALE
3/25/12: “structure” or “work of art”:
Larry Rivers’s “Legs”
3/29/12: Prepared for art:
Irene Harwicke Olivieri
4/1/12: Anita Steckel:
4/3/12: Aerosol art:
4/22/12: Chemistry, phallicity, and (anti-)Rockwellism:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/55777.html
Norman Rockwell, Shane Rodems, Eric Fischl – MALE
5/4/12: Aesthetic judgments:
Modernism, Brutalism
5/8/12: Swine Lake and Sendak:
Maurice Sendak
5/10/12: Alison Bechtel:
5/23/12: I am UndocuQueer!:
Julio Salgado
5/24/12: Arôme Saveur Penis:
Stéphane Bérard
5/29/12: Raymond Briggs
Briggs (illustrator of children’s books, graphic novelist)
7/7/12: Straight arrow:
EDZ: parking lot arrow (also notes on manhole covers)
7/19/12: Magritte:
Magritte (with parodies)
7/25/12: When English teachers snap:
Kathryn LeMieux
7/28/12: The Mrowr and the Whine:
Munch’s The Scream and parodies of it
7/29/12: More t-shirt art history:
van Gogh’s Starry Night and a parody
7/29/12: Cope & Guilbert:
Emmanuel Guibert
8/2/12: Pairings:
Lawrence Weschler “convergences”; Velazquez, Goya
8/22/12: Human furniture:
David Blazquez: human furniture – MALE
8/29/12: Food art:
food art, Arcimboldo
9/9/12: Nighthawks:
Hopper’s Nighthawks and parodies of it
9/15/12: Moroni:
10/4/12: Steadman’s Boids:
Ralph Steadman
10/12/12: Bob’s Big Boy:
Googie design
10/15/12: Ink on paper vs. paint on canvas:
drawings vs. paintings
10/15/12: Detroit Industry:
Diego Rivera
10/15/12:
Paul Klee, Die Zwitscher-Maschine
10/21/12: Marc Bessange:
MALE
11/10/12: After the election:
another Roffman – MALE
11/10/12: Mary Azarian:
11/10/12: Joe McKendry:
11/24/12: Barbara Kruger:
12/1/12: Poetic intersection:
Laura Letinsky
12/31/12: David Arnot:
MALE
1/19/13: Sekigushi X:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/67591.html
Kino Sekigushi – MALE
1/19/13: Kino Sekigushi:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/01/19/kino-sekigushi/
MALE
1/20/13: Dick aversion:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/67986.html
mostly Pierre & Gilles – MALE
1/21/13: Horror of the penis:
summary of “Dick aversion”, bibliography – MALE
1/22/13: Benno Thoma:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/68285.html
photographer – MALE
1/22/13: Another male photographer:
link to “Benno Thoma” – MALE
1/22/13: Benno Thoma 2:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/68443.html
photographer Benno Thoma – MALE
1/22/13: Porn / art
link to “Benno Thoma 2” – MALE
1/25/13: Bruce Weber:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/69553.html
phototographer Bruce Weber – MALE
1/25/13: Bruce Weber:
link to “Bruce Weber” – MALE
1/26/13: Ocho Loco Press:
Ocho Loco Press images
1/27/13: Antonio Fransconi:
woodcut artist Antonio Frasconi
2/12/13: Tony Duran:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/70561.html
photographer Tony Duran – MALE
2/12/13: Tony Duran:
link to “Tony Duran” – MALE
2/12/13: Dean Keefer:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/70887.html
photographer Dean Keefer – MALE
2/12/13: Dean Keefer:
link to “Dean Keefer” – MALE
2/13/13: Dan Throsby:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/71102.html
photographer Dan Throsby – MALE
2/13/13: Dan Throsby:
link to “Dan Throsby” – MALE
2/20/13: Michael Taubenheim:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/72066.html
photographer Michael Taubenheim – MALE
2/20/13: Michael Taubenheim:
link to “Michael Taubenheim” – MALE
2/24/13: Visual testosterone:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/72611.html
photographer Jim French / Rip Colt – MALE
2/24/13: Jim French / Rip Colt:
link to “Visual Testosterone” – MALE
2/26/13: Kristen Bjorn:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/73111.html
photography – MALE
3/7/13: Cock tease:
model Daniel Garofali – MALE
3/22/13: Surrealists:
works by: Francis Picabia, Salvador Dali, Roberto Matta, Bridget Tichenor, Paul Cadmus, Caravaggio, Jared French; mention of many others
3/25/13: David Vance
photographer David Vance – MALE
3/25/13: Carl Larsson:
Carl Larsson
3/26/13: noisette:
Urs Fischer
4/9/13: Man Ray:
Man Ray
4/12/13: Cubism:
cubism
4/15/13: Photography in San Francisco I: Gordon Parks:
photographer Gordon Parks
4/16/13: Photography in San Francisco II: Garry Winogrand:
photographer Garry Winogrand
4/18/13: The adventures of AZ:
awkward cover art (for Archibald Zwick)
4/22/13: Zao Wou-Ki:
painter Zao Wou-Ki
5/7/13: Mail art:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/84185.html
collagist Peter Kupás – MALE
5/7/13: The protean Colby Keller:
cartoonist J. Bone – MALE
5/14/13: Michael Reh:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/86491.html
photography – MALE
5/16/13: Paul Sietsema:
painter Paul Sietsema
5/17/13:Philip Taaffe:
painter Philip Taaffe
5/19/13: X or not?:
on X-rating for works of male art – MALE
6/4/13: Albert York:
painter Albert York
6/19/13: Wolfgang Tillmans:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/92182.html
photographer Wolfgang Tillmans – MALE
6/26/13: Claude Smith:
artist Claude Smith
7/1/31: Josh Duhamel posing:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/93037.html
photographer Greg Gorman – MALE
7/21/13: More Magritte:
7/27/13: Recruiting men:
recruiting posters; J.C. Leyendecker, McClelland Barclay
7/29/13: Marc Simont (and James Thurber):
illustrator Marc Simont
8/3/13: The city in scrapwood:
James McNabb, cityscape sculptures in scrapwood
8/4/13: Gang paintings:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/96874.html
Rick Chris paintings – MALE
8/6/13: Chokecherries and Ulmer:
Bonnat, Rembandt on Jacob and the angel
8/11/13: Naughty Little People:
humorous, often sexual, postcards
8/13/13: Manga matters:
manga instruction books; traditional Haida art; and Haida Manga
8/14/13: Ken Price:
ceramic artist Ken Price
8/17/13: Lee Lorenz, Matthew Barney, and more:
Matthew Barney, James Lee Byars, Hans Bellmer
8/29/13: Kissing the rose:
John William Waterhouse; Andy Warhol
9/13/13: Cupcake sledding:
photographer Christopher Boffoli
9/16/13: Sheepish notes:
painter Bouguereau, sculptor Thorvaldsen
9/16/13: Joe Boys:
illustrator Joe Phillips – MALE
9/17/13: Joe Phillips displays dick:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/100048.html
illustrationas – MALE
9/20/13: Fritz of Holland:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/101438.html
illustrations – MALE
9/27/13: Selfie:
photographic self-portraits
9/27/13: Magritte at MOMA:
10/2/13: Male nudes:
exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
10/07/13: Yes we can:
J. Howard Miller poster
10/8/13: ¡Sí Se Puede!:
Robert Valadez poster
10/20/13: Al Hirschfeld:
10/20/13: Mark Strand collages:
10/24/13: The Czech finger:
sculptor David Cerny
10/25/13: Antaeus:
images of Hercules and Antaeus: Greek krater, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Baldung
12/26/13: Santa art:
Ed Wheeler parodies
12/29/1 3: More art and porn:
Bertil Nilsson photography
12/29/13: Art and Craft:
Ruth Asawa
1/12/14: More miniatures:
Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida food miniatures
3/13/14: Today’s hunk:
Jonathan Black male photography – MALE
4/5/14: Surreal Zippy:
Magritte-style surrealism
5/3/14: Balloon dogs and Mr. Met:
Vermeer, Picasso, Reginald Marsh
5/20/14: Alan Fletcher:
Alan Fletcher, John Heartfield
5/23/14: Piercing:
Paul Blanca photography – MALE
5/31/14: Anthony Gormley:
Gormley’s outdoor statuary, Another Place
6/3/14: Mel Bochner:
Bochner’s conceptual art
6/3/14: Plant life by public transport:
Tafani
6/6/14: Anthony Friedkin:
Anthony Friedkin photography – MALE
6/6/14: Ralph Steadman:
cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, caricaturist
6/11/14: Josh Kline:
conceptual artist Josh Kline
6/21/14: Streamlined Koons:
Jeff Koons
6/26/14: paper cut
Chinese paper cuts
6/28/14: What’s art and what’s not on the High Line:
conceptual art
6/28/14: But is it art? More Jeff Koons:
Koons’s neo-pop
6/28/14: But is it art? At MoMA:
two exhibitions
6/29/14: But is it art? Abstraction:
Morris Louis
7/17/14: Things we doubt Louis XIV envisioned:
Jeff Koons, Puppy
7/21/14: Peter Mendelsund:
book cover art by Peter Mendelsund
8/3/14: Gerhard Marcks:
bronze sculptures by Marcks
8/14/14: Tumble Inn, Stan:
paintings of diners by John Baeder
8/15/14: Life among the artists:
Rembrandt, Gertrude Stein in a Zippy
8/28/14: Hybrid art:
Mari Kasurinen’s “My Little Tom of Finland” sculpture
8/29/14: Visual burlesque:
Costaldo and Huhn burlesques; Michael Huhn male photography (MALE)
8/30/14: Airing out the naughty bits:
photographer Keith Munyan – MALE
9/3/14: Jonathan Black:
photographer Jonathan Back – MALE
9/3/14: Jonathan Black, X-rated:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/106503.html
more from Jonathan Black – MALE
9/5/14: Greg Brown:
Palo Alto muralist Greg Brown
10/17/14: Plug anal gẻant on the Place Vendôme:
Paul McCarthy sculpture
10/19/14: Tove Jansson tomorrow:
novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author Tove Jansson
10/22/14: What was that word?:
Ingres, Grande Odalisque
11/2/14: A Xmas penguin, and Jane Austen:
#1: art by Yvonne Felix
11/8/14: Variations on a theme, with grapes:
still lifes: Severin Roesen, Caravaggio
11/24/14: Ciao, Carpaccio!:
Vittore Carpaccio
11/24/14: Phallic art:
drawing on AZBlogX
12/3/14: Clifford Baker:
photographer Clifford Baker – MALE
12/15/14: A painter of light and water:
J.M.W. Turner
12/16/14: Transitory art:
12/19/14: Calvin on art criticism:
12/21/27: Set of three:
#3: Courbet, Orlan
1/2/15: For the new year:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/109540.html
MALE: C1R photo; Roger Payne drawing
1/2/15: New Year’s specials:
MALE: on AZBlogX posting
1/8/15: Penguin chill:
photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty
1/12/15: More homoerotic magic realism:
painter Igor Sychev – MALE
1/13/15: Bernard Palin:
painter Bernard Palin – MALE
1/15/15: Norms:
Ed Ruscha painting
1/16/15: Robert Deyber:
Robert Deyber’s visual puns
1/16/15: Gio Black Peter:
queer works by Gio Black Peter – MALE
1/17/15: Tomi Ungerer:
works by Tomi Ungerer
1/18/15: The creatures of Fibonacci:
John Edmark kinetic statues
1/21/15: Food photography:
Sam Kaplan food photography, of soup stocks
1/27/15: Sol LeWitt:
3 works by LeWitt
2/8/15: Duane Michals:
photographer Michals
3/5/15: Surreal plus:
Zippy on Magritte
3/6/15: Cartoonization:
Zippy on Magritte
3/10/15: More cartoonization:
Zippy cartoonizations of Magritte paintings
3/11/15: The Spirit of Geometry:
Zippy and another Magritte
3/13/15: Today’s artistic pun:
Rodin’s The Thinker
3/29/15: This is not a Ding Dong:
another Zippy on Magritte
3/30/15: Jacob Lawrence:
artist Jacob Lawrence
4/28/15: Unconventional lives:
Lord Berners
5/12/15: Author, author!:
conceptual artist Chris Burden
5/27/15: Great beauties and unconventional lives:
John Singer Sargent, Zuleika
5/31/15: Sam Waterston:
surrealist illustrator Simón Prades
6/3/15: Morning name: Elagabolus:
Laurence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus
6/6/15: Seasons by de Chazal:
Richard de Chazal Seasons series – MALE
6/15/15: Rivera in Detroit:
Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry
6/15/15: June’s L&G news:
Pascal Blondeau, Swimming Pool photographs – MALE
6/16/15: David Hockney:
MALE
6/20/15: Screaming for ice cream:
parodies of Munch’s “The Scream”
6/29/15: shippo:
ancient Egyptian hippopotamus figurine
7/3/15: More gratuitous shirtlessness:
3 MALE photos
7/4/15: Shark statues:
shark art
7/11/15: Outrageous art:
Giger poster Phallic Landscape; sculpture Birth Machine
7/15/15: Dead Tongues:
Dead Tongues logo by Stephanie Shih
7/15/15: Cymbalism:
works by conceptual artist Terry Adkins
7/16/15: More art criticism from Calvin:
Calvin and Hobbes: categorizing Calvin’s goofy sidewalk drawings
7/19/15: The Importance of Being Incomprehensible:
An artist’s statement from Calvin
7/26/15: Dave Blazek:
Alexander Calder mobiles
8/7/15: Morning name: Hilarion:
the temptation of St. Hilarion: paintings by Papety, Tassaert
8/13/15: Ice cream, roadside fiberglass, Caillebotte, and more:
painter Gustave Caillebotte
8/15/15: Stickwork:
outdoor art with natural materials: Patrick Daugherty, Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy, Aviva Rahmani
8/21/15: Braldt Bralds:
poster and cartoon by the artist
9/3/15: Flintstone days:
Flintstone House in Hillsborough; Flintstone House in Malibu
9/7/15: Roberto Bolle:
MALE photography of dancer Roberto: 4 photos, including one by Bruce Weber
9/14/15: Alex Minsky and his underwear:
MALE photography by Michael Stokes
9/19/15: Muffins:
etching by Paul Sandby
9/23/15: Mark Mason, Matt Bauer, and Gay Porn Minus Gay Sex:
MALE photography by Matt Bauer, Jonathan Black
9/24/15: Another medieval penis monster:
from a medieval manuscript: painting of a dragon with a penis hat
9/30/15: Philip Bonneau:
MALE photography by Bonneau
10/7/15: Two recurrent themes:
gouache paintings / cartoons by Greg Stones
10/12/15: Our playful artists:
Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte
10/23/15: Airport penguin:
Leo Sewell installation in Atlanta airport
10/26/15: R(e)ubenesque:
Peter Paul Rubens and the Ruben(s)esque
11/2/15: David Hammons:
11/5/15: Pastiche:
Mikel Jaso parody of Magritte Trahison; two other illustrations
11/11/15: The water frog, the ground squirrel, and the little thrush:
Mark Catesby etchings of American flora and fauna from the 18th century
11/11/15: The story of Noodles Crumplewaste, Any-Size Woodtank, and Index Icecup:
The story of Noodles Crumplewaste, Any-Size Woodtank, and Index Icecup
Ben Katchor’s graphic short stories; Andy Warhol
11/12/15: Dance: Friedemann Vogel:
photography of Youn Sik Kim
11/13/15: The art of interjection:
Deborah Kass sculpture; Ed Ruscha word paintings
11/15/15: Les Danseurs:
Matthew Brookes photography of male ballet dancers
11/18/15: Fischli & Weiss:
11/21/15: Zipparchitecture:
architecture: Frank Gehry’s EMP Museum in Seattle
11/21/15: Kijé and Jimson:
movie The Horse’s Mouth, about artist Gulley Jimson
11/27/15: Canned cranjellyfish:
graphic designer Mark Pernice
12/2/15: I love my Jack Adams:
William Morris
12/3/15: José Parra:
photographer David Wagner – MALE
12/13/15: Ruin or architectural masterwork?:
Zippy: architects Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas
12/14/15: Professional muscle hunks:
Ron Lloyd’s male photography – MALE
12/17/15: manga/anime hair:
instructional materials for drawing manga/anime figures
12/22/15: Calendrical hunks:
Fred Goudon’s photography – MALE
12/26/15: From sadistic she-penguin convicts to wolves invading Britain:
From sadistic she-penguin convicts to wolves invading Britain
artist and illustrator Edward Gorey
12/28/15: Joe Park:
oil paintings by Park turned into postcard miniatures
12/30/15: Five cartoons for the penultimate day:
Zippy: #2 on breaking into the art world
1/1/16: Holiday images:
Hrjoe superhero compositions; erotic art of Etienne
1/4/16: Urinating superheroes:
Hrjoe superhero compositions
1/9/16: Signage models:
international signs; artist’s models
1/10/16: The woolly whale:
2 art works with woolly whales
1/14/16: Pittman, Dickinson, and Goya:
Lari Pittman’s Nuevos Caprichos, Goya’s Los Caprichos
1/14/16: Kike Sorroche, ilustrador homoerótico:
illustrator, graphic artist, artist (and cartoonist) Sorrache – MALE
1/16/16: A piece of male art:
MALE – photograph(model, photographer not identified)
1/24/16: Morning name: John Varvatos:
MALE – homotographer Giovanni Squatriti, models Nick Rea, Jonas Kesseler
1/28/!6: Three Thursday cartoons:
#3 Zippy: Dada, Picasso
1/29/16: aussieBum, Shearing the Rams, and Slim Dusty:
Tom Roberts painting Shearing the Rams
2/2/16: A visit with Colby Keller:
Keller’s art porn; drawings of him by Sai Hendrij and Paul Rob Wright; artist Paul Thek; modeling as performance art; two pieces of video performance art in the Colby Does America project (Califoria and New York); Justin Jorgensen’s Obscene Interiors
2/2/16: Notes on male ballet dancers:
#1 photo of three dancers at the barre, by unknown photographer; photos of dancer Joseph Gatti
2/7/16: The news for, um, monkeys:
coin design, Zhang poster, Cheeky Monkeys logo
2/11/16: The news for testicles (and, oh yes, penises):
illuminated manuscript with genitaliac symbols, phallic folk art
2/14/16: Two books of male photography:
Sixty Nine: Joyful Gay Sex MALE, Obscene Interiors
2/16/16: Loving couples:
photographs of Tom Daley + Dustin Lance Black for OUT magazine MALE; illustration for children’s picture book Worm Loves Worm
2/24/16: Annals of art and design: LC2 in Swiss concrete:
Swiss architect / interior architect Stefan Zwicky
2/24/16: Annals of art and design: Vivian Hornick:
paintings based on historical models, with women, animals, and very long titles that tell a story
2/28/16: Paul Sixta and Marios and more:
photographer Paul Sixta’s work MALE
3/14/16: Unnerving Chicano Art: Vincent Valdez
painters Valdez, Philip Ruston
3/16/16: Your money’s no good here:
grahic artist Alex Monopoly
3/17/16: Morning name: Botticelli, the game:
Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
3/23/16: Klimt Eastwood:
painter Gustav Klimt; visual mashups of a Klimt painting and a Clint Eastwood character
3/28/16: Roland Topor:
underground artist Topor
4/15/16: Ganymede on the fly:
MALE art: photographer “Priapus Milet”, painter Rick Herold, photographer Aaron Holloway
5/1/16: The news for (big) penises:
MALE photography (unknown photographer)
5/1/16: Annals of public art:
sculptor Edgardo Carmona
5/2/16: Where is he now?:
Tiki Art by Brad Parker
5/3/16: Morning names: thistles!:
fan slash photos: Destiel (Dean/Castiel)
5/4/16: María Sol Escobar:
death notice for Marisol
5/8/16: The knotted gun:
sculptor Reutersward
5/8/16: Art or cartoon?:
Zippy with Picasso and Duchamp as cartoonists
5/9/16: Escorts, rentboys, male hustlers:
MALE David Vance photography in Escort
5/13/16: Two extravagant mani-corns:
MALE photography: one a complex composition, the other an unposed shot (by Frazer Harrison)
5/14/16: Pretty in pink: my homo pony:
MALE photography: Exterface Studio spread
5/17/16: Joe Dallesandro:
MALE 2 photos of JD on AZBlog, 2 on AZBlogX
5/19/16: The White Palace Cafe:
painting of the Gadsden AL cafe
5/21/16: Programmer paintings:
paintings by Bilibin (Russian) and Bey (Turkish)
5/22/16: Male art: two views:
Reed, Art and homosexuality, and Clarke, on porn from Warhol to X-Tube
5/27/16: Graduation Day:
R. Kikuo Johnson illustrations
5/28/16: On the public art patrol: giant chairs:
five giant chairs as public art, plus a Zippy
5/28/16: Male photography: Leo (and Mikele):
MALE photographs of Leo (and his partner Mikele)
5/31/16: Lili Darvas:
photography of Edith Baracovich
6/6/16: A Chomsky caricature:
caricatures considered as art
6/14/16: Crate labe;s:
commercial art on crate labels
6/19/16: Language at the art galleries:
Ed Ruscha, Jean-Michel Basquiat
7/1/16: Big and cool and tangentially surreal:
Magritte
7/1/16: On the surreal train:
Zippy on its own surrealism; Duchamp
7/13/16: Bodily alignment:
paintings by Henry Scott Tuke, Georges Paul Le Roux, Thomas Eakins
7/17/16: A remarkable website:
Bob Mizer photos – MALE
7/18/15: The Insolence and the Ecstasy:
David Ligare paintings; Richard de Chazal art photography (MALE)
7/21/16: Michael Crawford:
#1 Monet haystacks, #2 Hopper
7/25/16: George Platt Lynes:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/127170.html
male nudes by the photographer – MALE
7/26/16: George Platt Lynes and Jared French:
photographs by the first, paintings by the second – both MALE
7/31/16: Form and function working together:
formal composition in ads for gay porn – MALE
8/9/16: The old curiosity shelf:
art, crafts, personal treasures
8/15/16: Gross and flying penguins, Barsotti and flying squirrels:
collages
8/17/16: Photo sets:
from Colt Studio and Marco Studio – MALE
8/18/16: Six doodles:
AZ doodles arranged in a composition
8/22/16: A ewer in the morning:
5 ewers; on functionality and artistic merit
8/22/16: The Fine Art Exemption:
for Michelangelo’s David and its penis
8/23/16: More on the David:
continuation of previous
8/25/16: Four more Steinbergs:
drawings by Saul Steinberg
8/26/16: Two impressively eccentric artists:
Michael Heizer and Lynda Benglis; also Sylvia Sleigh – MALE
8/26/16: Sylvia Sleigh’s male art:
MALE
9/9/16: Herb Ritts:
photos by Herb Ritts – MALE
9/10/16: Return of the Sam Gross balloon dog:
Jeff Koons
9/22/16: Bare bear poets in ther youth:
photographer Richard Avedon – MALE
10/1/16: Penguin irises:
Ogata Kōrin iris screen
10/7/16: The sculpture garden:
10/8/16: Naming his Essence:
Paul Freeman photography – MALE
10/10/16: Collage days:
AZ collages (academic, gay, miscellaneous) – MALE
10/12/16: Annals of public art: bunnies in the lake:
works by Alex Podesta
10/16/16: On the Zwicky art watch: Calder Zwicky:
CZ and Adam Parker Smith
10/17/16: Nick Cave and the Soundsuits:
10/21/16: Harvest art:
fruits and vegetables in ceramic, blown glass, metal
10/24/16: Naked boys playing at liberty:
Andrew Kennedy photography – MALE
10/26/16: Wednesday odds and ends:
item (1): painted scroll by Kitagawa Sôsetsu
11/2/16: Giantess Jackie:
Marilyn Monroe statues as public art; fiberglass roadside figures as a kind of public art
11/4/16: Into the Cave world:
Nick Cave and his Soundsuits
11/7/16: Seward Johnson:
gigantic sculptures of human figures
11/18/16: The news for cigars:
photography by Stephen F. Dennstedt
11/23/16: Two Stanford adventures:
California and water exhibition at Stanford Museum; Albert Bierstadt; two other 19th-century landscape painters
11/30/16: Poet in Search of His Moose:
collages by Barry Kite
12/2/16: Robert Arneson:
“Johns” and self-ceramics by Arneson
12/4/16: Le calendrier des agriculteurs:
calendar photos by Fred Goudon – MALE
12/5/16: Wayne Thiebaud:
the artist
12/14/16: This week’s art news:
discovery of a St. Sebastian drawing by Leonardo – MALE
12/16/16: Gay Santas 2016:
photos #1-3, illustrations #4-5 – MALE
12/16/16: Two in the Bush:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/135737.html
2 cartoons / illustrations by Harry Bush – MALE
12/23/16: and the horse you rode in on:
Zippy with horse drawings
12/31/16: Surrealists, but especially Jess:
collages and paintings by Jess (#5 MALE); also Magritte, Nick Cave, Willie Cole, others
1/1/17: Asian male muscle in fantasyland:
fantasy photography – MALE
1/5/17: Gay men on the new subway walls:
Vik Muniz
1/27/17: A kiss is just a kiss:
four photographs of men kissing – MALE
2/8/17: More holiday food:
painting Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev
2/12/17: Three exhibitions:
at the Cantor Art Center: Dutch Golden Age prints, Andy Warhol, East Asian images of the lingzhi mushroom; printmaking techniques
2/15/17: The news for penguins and, oh yes, penises:
Felix d’Eon – MALE
2/16/17: Felix d’Eon:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/137504.html
7 artworks – MALE
2/17/17: Felix d’Eon: on normalizing gay:
MALE
2/19/17: Art of the penis:
penis images from a wide range of artists; inventory of my postings on penis art – MALE
2/22/17: Meathead:
Asier Sanz: collage in #1, Asier & Javier caricature in #2
2/24/17: Dash Manley:
Manley exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center
2/28/17: The little man with the laundry:
clothespin wall art; Claes Oldenburg clothespin sculpture
2/28/17: Edward Sorel:
Sorel’s “Met Break”, with figures from famous artworks
3/3/17: Abstraction and the Movies:
Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, and others in an Anderson Collection exhibition at Stanford
3/3/17: He’s dancing with a laser up his butt:
Young Boy Dancing Group
3/4/17: At the art museum:
Stanford arts administrator Matthew Tiews; inventory of postings about the Stanford arts museums
3/5/17: Keith Boadwee’s body art:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/138269.html
4 photos / compositions
3/5/17: Body works, Part IV: Anal Art:
Keith Boadwee; Bruce Nauman
3/6/17: Bruce Nauman:
the multifaceted artist
3/6/17: No whey in hell:
Anne Taintor captioning
3/10/17: Katharina Zwicky:
3/22/17: An outrageous but colorful pun:
moiré pattern paintings by Faruquee
4/2/17: Corey Saucier:
photographs of CS – MALE
4/3/17: The pyramids as abstrctions:
abstract art
4/18/17: A pun with death, a dance on the beach:
Vettriano, Zhaang
4/19/17: Calla, calla, calla, California:
Georgia O’Keeffe calla lily paintings
4/21/17: Seahorse on a stick, GBF, and the Describe-A-Muffin Task:
drawings by Cannaday Chapman
4/24/17: Alien signage and Arbus in Anaheim:
photography by Diane Arbus; re-creation by John Malcovich
4/25/17: There’s always room for another penguin or two:
the ornithological illustrations of J. G. Keulemans
4/26/17: Saint Phalle:
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Moderna Museet in Stockholm
4/27/17: Faces:
painters Hope Gangloff, Giuseppe Arcimboldo; photographer Don Stahl; portrait show at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center
4/28/17: Faces follow-up 1: Master Beckford:
painters Benjamin West, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, George Romney, Joshua Reynolds; art collector and patron William Thomas Beckford
4/28/17: Faces follow-up 2: Augusta Savage:
painters Gwendolyn Knight (Lawrence) and Jacob Lawrence; sculptor Augusta Savage
5/2/17: Shelf Life:
cartoons / illustrations by Luci Guttiérrez
5/2/17: Semiotics of dress: the Age of High Gay:
Jim Wigler’s photographs of S.F. leather/bdsm scenes – MALE
5/26/17: Food art: still lifes:
6/2/17: Needlepoint X:
X-rated gay needlepoint art by Zach Nutman and Maria Piñeres – MALE
6/3/17: This is not a President:
Annette Müllender parody of Magritte
6/8/17: An old resultative joke:
Richard Prince “joke painting” of the Drink Canada Dry joke
6/9/17: Three cactuses:
botanical illustrations by Petr Liška
6/11/17: Making fun of Batman:
two parodies of Grant Wood’s American Gothic
6/16/17: News for penises: the Haring commemorative bathroom:
Keith Haring drawings – MALE
6/19/17: The thumbnail image, rainbows, and Pride:
#4 OEAZ rainbow art
6/22/17: The Three Delfts:
three paintings by Vermeer: The Geographer, The Astronomer, The Milk Maid
6/25/17: Superhero sex on Spanish streets:
street art by Ze Carrión – MALE
6/25/17: Animated cartoons, fan art, same-sex love:
fan art by Opal Armstrong Zwicky
6/28/17: More Magrittean disavowals:
inventory of postings on Magrittean disavowals
6/28/71: The Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever:
The Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever
Superman/Batman wall paintings, conventional paintings, and digital art – MALE
7/7/17: Two artists: Land, Chast:
R. Land, Roz Chast (exhibit at Contemporary Jewish Museum)
7/7/17: What will become of me?:
Gilbert & George
7/9/17: Words on a wall:
John Tenniel illustrations for the Alice books
7/10/17: Taking the Magrittean Disavowal at face value:
Norman Rockwell illustration
8/2/17: Three names:
Gerry Hofstetter light art; Delacroix’sThe Prisoner of Chillon
8/4/17: A stay in medical Antarctica:
onion dome in architecture; illustration for Gulliver’s Travels; illustrations by Nishant Choksi
8/6/17: Words as weapons, images as ideas:
19 World War I posters, including several by J. C. Leyendecker, James Montgomergy Flagg, and Howard Chandler Christy; some MALE
8/11/17: Billy the Berlin Barboy:
conceptual artist Salem Beiruti – MALE
8/13/17: Four more Kite collages:
Barry Kite collages; artists Andrew Wyeth, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera; photographer Gibson Gardner
8/14/17: Two European estates in America:
architecture of the two estates
8/15/17: July 24th, p. 9: two artists:
Sandy Skoglund, Lucas Michael
8/17/17: In camera:
Zippy with references to four American photographers; Darkroom camera shop in LA; programmatic / mimic architecture, novelty architecture
8/17/17: Two cartoonists take on Charlottesville:
illustrators (as well as cartoonists) John Berkeley and Peter Kuper
8/18/17: Two magazine covers:
illustrators (as well as cartoonists) David Plunkert and Edel Rodriguez
8/19/17: An urban jungle:
photographers Andy Yeung, Raphael Olivier
8/20/17: Pouring it on:
Zippy on Vik Muniz on Hans Namuth on Jackson Pollack
8/27/17: Revisiting 6: Fire Island Pines:
Tom Bianchi book of Polaroids from Fire Island Pines 1975-83 – MALE
8/30/17: The Fountain of Angels in America:
angel statue in Central Park; landscape architecture
8/31/17: In bronze and marble:
sculpture by Emma Stebbins
9/10/17: The fan, the spathiphyllum, and the impressionist garden:
Claude Monet
9/12/17: Cat on a silken thread:
Donald Brun posters
9/19/17: Disney meets Tom of Finland:
Silverjow’s muscle daddy drwarfs – MALE
9/20/17: Rewind the music, cover your bones with rainbow:
R.O. Blechman illustration
9/23/17: Boys with Plants:
young men + plants – MALE
9/30/17: The archangel Michael:
representations of St. Michael in art of several kinds; of Zeus and Ganymede
10/12/17: The pizza boy as cultural figure:
#1 pizza boy drawing by Allain de Leon – MALE
10/15/17: Lilyturf, bronze pin heads, and ungrammatical yucca:
sculpture by Albert Guibara
10/18/17: de poepende man:
sculptures by Anthony Gormley; (in comment) sculpture by Celeste Roberge
10/22/17: Que Seurat, Seurat:
EDZ photograph, Seurat and Signac, pointillism
10/25/17: Gendered moments in the comics:
#4, 5 Berthe Morisot; #6-8 Mary Cassatt
10/30/17: Zipparchitecture on two coasts:
Gillette Castle in Lyme CT; the Flintstones’ house; Parasol restaurants in SoCal; novelty architecture
10/30/17: Skeleton rainbow:
10/30/17: Herons in the garden:
garden ceramics by Brigitte Peglow
11/2/17: This machine kills fascists:
conceptual art by Stella Marrs
11/22/17: Superhero supper:
Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper; photo Lunch atop a Skyscraper
12/6/17: 100 years of independence:
Tove Jansson illustrations; Nina Khatchadourian; Tom of Finland (MALE)
12/10/17: Son of Snowman:
Rhymes With Orange parody of Magritte’s The Son of Man
12/11/17: Er is der Schönste in Berlin:
MALE – photos, paintings, drawings of the male body, mostly nude, emphasizing the lateral muscles
12/13/17: A decent woolly mammoth and a nice bit of shirtless cowboy:
“Shirtless Cowboy Mounted on Woolly Mammoth” by costume designer Magda Guichard
12/16/17: A tale of a bed: from removal to revival:
#12 Edward Hopper, Western Motel
12/25/17: Easter Island holiday:
primitive sculptures on Easter Island
12/25/17: The power of the pen:
two pieces of public art by Larry Kirkland; decorative miniature sculpture from Design Toscano; Monument to Party Founding in Pyongyang
12/29/17: News for penises: Artwatch:
Carolina Falkholt paintings
12/29/17: George Booth at 90: elephants and holidays:
#7 Banksy installation
12/31/17: News for penguins, penises, and Totoro:
modern art at Museum Kampa in Prague
1/7/18: Epiphany morning with Joey Tribbiani:
#2 Mowbray painting of the Three Magi
1/9/18: The clowns of death and the frogs of Wellsboro:
#2 commercial folk-art: thew frog of the Frog Hut
1/20/18: Large Interior Form:
Zippy with Henry Moore’s Large Interior Form
1/29/18: Art news from my neighborhood:
Kohei Nawa exhibition at the Pace Gallery Palo Alto
2/19/18: In the sculpture garden:
Henry Moore sculptures
2/28/18: POP on the half shell:
paintings by Botticelli: Birth of Venus, Primavera
3/1/18: Call me by your name:
Patti Smith’s Just Kids, on Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe
3/11/18: Annals of shirtlessness: French neo-Classicism:
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Dante and Virgil, Equality Before Death, The Birth of Venus
3/12/18: Shirtlessness and more: Bouguereau and Sargent:
Orestes paintings by both artists; John Singer Sargent’s male nudes (MALE)
3/18/18: Adam Hillman: rainbows and food:
Hillman’s assemblage art
3/20/18: Evacuation Day, Removal Day:
J. Godfrey engraving of Lord Howe’s evacuation frm Boston
3/20/18: Divine Bodies:
exhibition at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
3/21/18: nameless sodomites:
Ines Doujak’s art
3/25/18: Art objects and utilitarian objects:
utilitarian objecs with various degrees of aesthetic content: pipe vents, parking lot arrows, manhole covers, urinals, storm sewer grates, downspout nozzles and extensions
3/28/18: Deviant Last Suppers:
9 parodies of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper
3/30/18: Pride Time #5: On Barceloneta beach:
architect Ricardo Bofil, artist Rebecca Horn, architect and artist Frank Gehry
3/31/18: Easter Anthem: the text:
illustrations by William Blake
4/3/18: Watercolor journeys:
Tony Foster’s wilderness watercolors
4/9/18: The gay world of Yvon Goulet:
Montreal artist Goulet
4/12/18: Moments of color:
EDZ composition
4/19/18: Erective affinities:
Magritte painting Elective Affinities
4/20/18: The world out my front door:
photography by Ruth Orkin
4/29/18: All the dessert world is not either cake or pie:
the art of Magrittean disavowal
5/2/18: He’s got the moves:
Schutzengell (“Guardian Angel”) by Bernhard Plockhorst
5/4/1 8: Pickled pricks:
artist Mary Ellen Croteau
5/6/18: Said the rapper to the geek:
M.C. Escher
5/12/18: For Mothers Day:
#3 Black Mask group
5/16/18: Surreal beer:
Magritte’s “Son of Man”
5/19/18: The 6-fold way:
EDZ design
5/21/18: bunny ears:
engraving of Pan, Midas, and Apollo
5/28/18: The Zippyphone game:
#4 Norman Rockwell drawing
5/29/18: It’s alive!:
art of Frankenstein show at Stanford; Beth Van Hoesen; Victor Arnautoff; Frederik Sommer
6/3/18: The rose and the flames:
2 EDZ designs; rose windows; painting by Jean Il Restout; David Wojnarowicz works
6/19/18: A Swiss thread:
posters by Brun, Bamberger, and two unknown artists for Zwicky thread company; 3 other Bambergers
6/25/18: Midsummer cartoons:
#4 art parodies
#6 Joseph Noel Paton painting – MALE
6/27/18: Three Züricher Peter Zwickys:
#2 another Zwicky silk-thread poster
6/27/18: More Pride events:
Casa Batlló in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí
6/29/18: Paul Octavious:
photography by Paul Octavious – some MALE; photography by Tanya Chalkin (#2)
7/1/18: Photobombing Magritte:
Magritte’s “Son of Man”
7/5/18: czl.ch:
Swiss artist Christine Zwicky-Lehmann
7/10/18: What did the Cretan bull say to Hercules when the hero tamed him?:
What did the Cretan bull say to Hercules when the hero tamed him?
August Kriesmann sculpture of Hercules taming the Cretan bull; Schwerin Castle
7/15/18: On the black cat patrol:
Donald Brun posters
7/16/18: 19th-century Swiss steak:
public sculpture: the Fork of Vevey, Switzerland
7/17/18: Chard semantics, chard art, and chard food:
Swiss chard as a subject of art and photography
7/20/18: Jurassic Jeff:
#1 statue of Jeff Goldblum in London
7/28/18: Hockney paints Daley:
Hockney exhibition of portraits at LACMA; nude painting of diver Tom Daley – MALE
8/1/18: Men for men, and perilous translation:
drawings by Francisco Hurtz – MALE
8/8/18: The Gay Village, Swiss Chalet, poutine:
Swiss Chalet architectural style
8/9/18: Dix-huit nuances de gai:
landscape architect Claude Cormier; Montreal’s 18 Shades of Gay installation; Toronto urban beach
8/14/18: Head in hands:
sculpture of Epicurus; Henri Vidal sculpture; Jean-Charles Ferrand sculpture; anonymous male nude figure in polyresin – MALE; Joy Brown bronze; Kim Michael construction of scrap metal; Tom Otterness bronzes
8/16/18: Rainbow. Sharks. Rainbow sharks.:
#1 public art in Stockholm underground; #5 Dulski digital artwork Rainbow Shark
8/21/18: More bedevilment:
2 illustrations by John Tenniel
8/26/18: The penis art of David the Robot:
MALE
8/29/18: Bruce Weber II: the photographer’s gaze:
Bruce Weber photography MALE; Dawoud Bey photography; criticism by Teju Cole
8/31/18: Swiss art supplies in the morning:
art supplies from Caran d’Ache
9/27/18: Mike Lynch:
illustration by John Tenniel
10/7/18: Ancient of Days:
Blake’s “The Ancient of Days”
10/11/18: Contractualism, the sitcom!:
Giorgio Morandi
10/21/18: Dark magic:
magic realist Ivan Albright; inventory of postings on magic(al) realism in art
10/29/18: 63 years of green beans, mushroom soup, and fried onions
#4 Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962)
11/3/18: News for pumpkins: art and science:
#1 painted pumpkin
11/5/18: Mandala swimmer, Kali tat, Banksia stamp:
mandalas, elaborate tattoos, Banksia art by Celia Rosser
11/27/18: On the Swiss poster patrol:
Romantic art and vistas; Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
11/29/18: A grotesque word:
gargoyles
11/29/18: Swiss Tasmania:
#1 Harry Kelly poster of Mt. Ida and Lake St Clair; W.C. Piguenit watercolor of the scene
11/29/18: He came from the sea … and can love only me:
MALE photography in ads for Marcuse swim brief
11/30/18: Green flowers:
flower arrangement as an art; fine arts vs. decorative and useful arts; EDZ design
12/2/18: A morning in the Blue Period:
Picasso paintings
12/4/18: Santa Barbara: smite him with lightning:
architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci
12/5/18: News for bears: St. Corbinian:
more on Parducci’s bears; 3 depictions of St. Corbinian
12/8/18: News for bears: cities of bears:
bear statue in Los Osos CA
12/12/18: Three artists:
Franz Marc, Odilon Redon, Dale Chihuly
12/13/18: The corten zoo of Fernando Suárez Reguera:
folk art vs. fine art; the Spanish sculptor; the material corten; Chicago Picasso; Deborah Butterfield’s horses
12/13/18: Taboo book notice:
cover art: aboriginal rock art
12/14/18: Apearances:
#1 physique magazine photography MALE
12/17/18: Penguins and packages:
#1 Nicky Boehme cosy print
12/18/18: The Swiss diaspora: Steinlen in Montmartre:
Swiss French artist Steinlen
12/24/18: Seasonal thanks:
#4 portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell
12/26/18: Four presents:
#4 otter drawing by rubyetc
12/28/18: News for penises: Bourdain’s Bhutan:
the penis as an element in the folk art of Bhutan
12/29/18: Nighthawks in search of an artist:
cartoon parody of the Hopper painting
1/2/19: Nighthawks on New Year’s:
Owen Smith parody of the Hopper
1/5/19: Three kings from 1900:
J.C. Leyendecker magazine cover of the Magi – MALE
1/22/19: Uri and Avi:
#1 and #3 photography – MALE; #4 Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom painting
1/25/19: Nolde to de l’Écluse to Busbecq:
flower paintings by Emil Nolde
1/30/19: Hugo Simberg:
works by the Finnish artist, especially The Wounded Angel and The Garland Bearers
2/1/19: Gleaning:
Millet and Breton Gleaners
2/4/19: Mandolin Orange:
John Trumbull’s The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill
2/9/19: Displaced icons of art:
the Blue Boy, the Mona Lisa; prints by Michael Breyette
2/11/19: Age cannot wither them:
Ivan Albright and The Portrait of Dorian Gray
2/23/19: An omission:
Richard Taddei’s “Morning in America – The death of Matthew Shepard”
2/23/19: A walk up Emerson St.:
Adriana Varella’s statue Digital DNA
3/3/19: My darling clematis:
Emil Nolde clematis watercolor
3/10/19: News for penises, French Riviera edition:
Fontaine du Soleil statuary in Nice
3/13/19: The lives of the French artists:
Puvis de Chavannes, Susan Valadon, and their artistic circles
3/17/19: V me, I’m Irish:
Rheam cover art
3/26/19: Through a glass penis, darkly:
stained glass; ceramic sculpture by Katia Fogliaro; glass penis sculpture by Dale Chihuly
3/26/19: They might be herons:
more glass sculptures by Chihuly
3/28/19: Revisiting 28: van Gogh and Redon:
flower paintings
4/5/19: Science, charity, and adverbial ambiguity:
early Picasso painting
4/6/19: The trail mixer:
conceptual artist Benedetto Bufalino and his disco ball cement mixer
4/9/19: Athletica Sport Dick, how I admire thee:
statues of athletes in repose: a Roman marble, Rodin bronze, Charles Despiau
4/10/19: Crunching the festive rabbits:
Godzilla compositions by Sherry; Dinopocalypse drawing by MaxRomanchak on DeviantArt
4/11/19: An art of leaves and rocks:
land artist James Brunt; the Colossal website and its resources; land/earth art on this blog
4/17/19: The last Peepshow:
Munch, The Scream, Rue Lafayette; Hopper, Nighthawks, Rooms for Tourists, The Night Office, Notre Dame de Paris; parody magnets; Peeps parody dioramas
4/22/19: The Easter egg in the salt mine:
looted art; restitution of such art; Manet, Wintergarden
4/24/19: A Ceci disavowal:
Magritte
4/27/19: A standout in his shorts:
Mapplethorpe photos – MALE
4/30/19: Where are you going with that?:
illustrator Garth Williams
5/1/19: The May flower:
Toulouse-Lautrec poster of Jane Avril
5/2/19: Revisiting 30: Fragonard at Neuschwanstein:
Fragonard painting retrieved in 1945; other Fragonard paintings
5/3/19: The hand that cradles the tree:
outdoor art in Switzerland: “The Caring Hand” in Glarus; “Sihl-Ghüür” in Zürich
5/5/19: Wooden arches:
arches as artworks; design of everyday objects
5/11/19: The dragons of Homoland:
rainbow dragon design by Ross Sanger; other rainbow dragon designs; D&D logo
5/16/19: Pooh’s honey pot:
Shepard illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books
5/19/19: Great twerks of the 19th century:
Bay Area artist Judy Aoki
5/20/19: Stravinsky’s 1970 Firebird and the Ghoulliard Quartet:
#5 by illustrator Ivan Bilibin
5/22/19: The videographer:
wedding, commercial, and art videographer Denis Zwicky
5/28/19: Learnèd cowboy joshing on the dusty plains:
engraving of the beheading of Robespierre
6/4/19: Annals of misreading: CEAUSESCU:
Brumidi fresco in the US Capitol
6/6/19: On the art patrol: Alice Neel, Larry Rivers:
https://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/154869.html
Alice Neel painting of Joe Gould; Larry Rivers painting of Frank O’Hara
6/6/19: What makes the world go ’round?:
Alice Neel’s portraits
6/11/19: Come frolic and cavort in the water:
photography and painting by Keith Vaughan – MALE
6/18/19: Portraits of Frank O’Hara:
Larry Rivers artworks; Frank O’Hara as a subject of art; artworks in O’Hara’s poetry – MALE
6/20/19: Two comics explained:
#3 Magritte, Trahison
6/24/19: On your knees for St. George Michael:
#1 Scott March graphic; #5 Julian Voss-Andreae sculpture
6/25/19: Torus! Torus! Torus!:
Charging Bull sculpture in NYC
6/27/19: The Desert Island Reaper:
#7 Gustave Doré illustration; #8 Alexander Litovchenko painting
6/28/19: Today’s art quiz: Skylunch III:
photograph by Ebbets; metallic sculpture by Furnari; drawing by Avenell; conceptual-art composition by unknown artist
6/29/19: A bit more reaping:
Banksy’s Grin Reaper
7/2/19: The fiberglass men of Skylunchland:
versions of Lunch Atop a Skyscraper in various media
7/4/19: Am I a bird?:
art by Priapus of Milet – MALE
7/11/19: Three Pride moments:
#1 Gay Pride composition by Alvaro Limon Lopez; Iwo Jima photograph
7/14/19: The Skylunch of the American economy:
version of Skylunch by Andrea Ucini for an Economist cover; two other covers by Ucini
7/20/19: The artist Tove Jansson:
what is an artist; Jansson’s portraiture and her illustrations
7/30/19: Ralph at the Port Authority:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/30/ralph-at-the-port-authority/
statue of Ralph Kramden at the bus terminal
8/1/19: Understanding the bull:
Robt. Lawson illustration for Ferdinand the Bull
8/4/19: Two diversions:
marble lions in Monza, Italy, and at the New York Public Library
8/4/19: Briefly noted: the disavowal drill:
Giacomo Gambineri illustration in the NYT Magazine
8/10/19: Cheeseburger mouse:
fiberglass cheese mice and cheeseburgers as commercial icons and pop art
8/15/19: Blue and black at the Gamble Garden:
Norman Rockwell magazine cover
8/18/19: Pedaltecture:
architecture: house in the shape of a shoe
8/23/19: Penguins meet and greet:
Gaudí’s mosaic art; Barcino Designs mosaic figures of animals in the style of Gaudí
8/29/19: 79:
Martin painting of Vesuvius eruption
9/1/19: Annals of error: water canons:
painting By the Waters of Babylon by Thomas Bowman Garvie
9/11/19: Giovanni in Ferragamo:
photography presenting Giovanni’s Room as an interracial gay love story – MALE
9/28/19: Gender notes: the pinup push:
pinup art; jokey queer send-ups of it (MALE); Sylvia Sleigh gaze-reversal art
10/21/19: 11k little bears, done in by the Huns:
Memling, Carpaccio, and the story of St. Ursula
10/24/19: Grammar and gardening:
“Allegory of Grammar” by Laurent de La Hyre; Seven Liberal Arts sculptures at Chartres Cathedral
10/25/19: High steel Escher:
M.C. Escher works
10/29/19: News at the Miss Albany:
painter Ralph Goings; photorealism; painter
11/13/19: The chimera of Faneuil Hall:
Mickey Mouse statue in Boston
11/26/19: Annals of art: Thiebaud’s Thanksgiving turkey:
this year’s New Yorker Thanksgiving cover, by Wayne Thiebaud; interview with WT; 1950 cartoon, 1988 Mickey Mouse painting
11/26/19: Annals of art: statues of the iron prince:
statues of Popeye in Alma AR
11/28/19: Thanksgiving sacks of cement:
Matt Reedy cartoon art: Thanksgiving in Cincinnati
11/28/19: All thanks to HomoEros:
J. C. Leyendecker 1928 cover of Saturday Evening Post
11/30/19: Kind Hearts and Coronets:
art and artifice
12/15/19: The images quilt:
R1C2 public art; R2C2 Roy Lichtenstein; R4C2 Gaea Leinhardt sketch
12/16/19: More pin-up boys:
David Talaski-Brown’s male superhero pin-up art; other pin-up boys – MALE
12/21/19: Surprise! Vadim’s gay alphabet:
https://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/156246.html
Vadim Temkin’s sexy gay alphabet images (also in surprise cubes) – MALE
12/24/19: Hung with care:
Vadim’s alphabet on AZBlog – MALE
1/2/20: Zwicky with a beat:
album cover art for an André Zwicky release
1/6/20: Yo Day 1: King/Saint Melchior:
two portraits of the Three Kings: Giromalo da Santacroce, J.C. Leyendecker
1/6/20: Yo Day 2: OY/YO at Stanford:
Deborah Kass interjectional statue
1/9/20: Boy oh Boyu!:
plaster bust of David Bowie, cover art for Aladdin Sane
1/16/20: At the rim of the Mournful Valley, singing:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti portrait of his sister Christina Rossetti
1/28/20: Humongous tops Adonis:
Bertil Thorvaldsen sculpture of Adonis
1/31/20: Identify that potato:
(forensic) sketch artists
1/31/20: Early February herbivores:
Henry Schreiber’s marmot art
2/13/20: Lincoln Darwin Valentine Day:
gayporn as (functional popular) art
2/22/20: While you’re up:
Alberto Vargas pinups
2/26/20: A priest, a rabbit, and a minister:
Omar Rayyan fantasist painting “Bunny with Beer”
3/15/20: Higashi Day cartoon 5: hoods and newts:
J.W. Smith illustration for “Little Red Riding Hood”
3/16/20: Corónsyphùs: Strength Through Biochemistry:
Vadim Temkin CGI art, coronavirus vs. Sisyphus
3/21/20: Golcorona:
Vadim Temkin CGI art: take-off of Magritte’s Golconda
3/23/20: Mourning Son:
Vadim Temkin CGI art: take-off of Edward Hopper’s Morning Son
3/28/20: Reading faces:
#1 Michael Haddad illustration
3/29/30: St. Martin des Poires:
commercial art: crate labels
4/10/20: Martin Van Buren, feeding nachos to a hyperactive squirrel:
Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware; Rembrandt, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer
4/10/20: Easter egg 2020.1: Mussorgsky chicken with crocuses:
Jacquie Lawson animated ecard; Viktor Hartmann works
4/16/20: Quick shot: the SGT penguin doodle:
artful doodles by Sarah Grey Thomason, including two penguins
4/23/20: The wolves of Rome (and Venice):
Romulus and Remus and their wolf, in an antique statue, and in a Rubens painting
4/25/20: The rainbow penguin of regard:
penguin by Anna M. Thornton
4/27/20: News for penguins: hop on lovepop:
laser-cut kirigami art
4/28/20: Crochet me a word:
crochet artworks
4/29/20: Magritte by Banksy:
Banksy takeoff on Magritte’s Trahison…
5/1/20: Trois lapins pour le premier mai:
Melinda Copper Animal Masterpieces
5/2/20: This is a pipe:
the Magritte painting
5/6/20: With sword, shield, robe, and wreath:
poster of Helvetia, the official personificaton of Switzerland
5/10/20: VT’s Banksy’s Magritte:
https://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/158307.html
two Vadim Temkin take-offs on a Banksy take-off on a Magritte — one, in the negative, like the Magritte original; the other, in the positive, as in the Banksy take-off
5/10/20: Conceptually artistic dicks:
regular blog version of the preceding
5/14/20: Urs on drums:
statue of St. Ursus of Solothurn and its fountain
5/16/20: Bridge troll:
Zippy cartoon celebrating the Fremont Troll, a piece of gigantic public art in Seattle WA
5/20/20: Balloon quotes:
the balloon-quote photography of blcksmth (Michael James Schneider) and his other photography; postings about what counts as art
5/23/20: The ceramic grocery story:
the ceramic art of Stephanie H. Shih
5/25/20: Pandemic gifts:
artwork of Sean Christopher Ward (and Rick Schmidt)
6/1/20: Aradesque?:
arabesques
6/3/20: Gender presentations in Oz:
Mermazing note card, photograph of Patience Hodgson in performance, Grande Odalisque by Ingres
6/3/20: I see London, I see France, I see Batman’s underpants:
Nick Veasey’s x-ray artworks
6/6/20: murals:
mural used for artwork on a roadway; ceiling murals (Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam); Coit Tower murals, including work by Victor Arnautoff
6/16/20: Using poetry in a street fight:
Johan Deckmann’s language art framed as book covers
6/19/20: Flowers and a watch:
Abraham Mignon’s 17-century still lifes; still lifes in general
6/20/20: Ephebe with a big package:
The Ephebe of Marathon (school of Praxiteles)
7/2/20: Learn to drawl:
Art Instruction Schools; illustration and cartooning
7/3/20: Nighthawks in a time of coronavirus:
Hopper’s Nighthawks in service of commentary about the pandemic
7/10/20: Hiding homosexuality: JCL:
J.C. Leyendecker’s homoerotic illustrations – MALE
7/17/20: The art of the buttocks:
buttocks art in museums; William Etty and his nudes
7/17/20: Buttocks III: (mainstram) art, male art, porn:
Steven Vaschon Rear View photo books – MALE
7/19/20: Birdland:
clay penguin exhibition
7/21/20: But is it art? two cartoon takes
7/24/20: A Byzantine bulge and Byzantine buttocks:
Byzantine mosaics; the architecture of Hagia Sophia
7/31/20: Chaka Khan and post-Freudian psychoanalytic thought:
#4 Will Bullas painting Pink Freud
8/3/20: The art of everyday objects:
Claes Oldenburg; everyday objects as art objects
8/10/20: Double scoop in the heat of summer:
Wayne Thiebaud New Yorker cover
8/20/20: Hard cruisin’ Daddy:
MALE photography
8/21/20: New Yorker 8/24/20:
Goya painting
9/13/20: Mid-autumn memento mori for the times:
digital still life by Stephanie Shih combining traditions from West and East
9/15/20: Modern still lifes: Darren Jones:
9/17/20: Caillebotte’s garden:
on Gustave Caillebotte
9/22/20: Still life grotesques:
the grotesque still life photography of Tara Sellios
9/24/20: Vase of Flowers with Donuts:
Stephanie Shih digital still life based on the floral still lifes of Jan Brueghel / Breughel the Elder (but with donuts)
9/24/20: The unbearable lightness of food and drink:
still lifes by artist Piotr Gregorcyk showing food and drink floating disassembled in zero gravity
9/25/20: Minimal still lifes:
two photographs by Krista van der Niet
9/26/20: Yoan Capote:
three body-oriented sculptures by the Cuban artist
9/27/20: Giovanna Garzoni:
still lifes by the 17th-century Italian artist
9/28/20: Breakfast with Francesco Tonelli:
food photography by Tonelli
9/28/20: Deconstructed hamburgers, exploding in layers:
a genre of food photography
10/14/20: Homage to Magritte:
Temkin parody of Magritte 1937
10/16/20: One more Magrtte homage:
to The Lovers
10/17/20:Another Shih still life:
Stephanie Shih work, Pieter de Ring 17th-century still life
10/17/20: A tribute to Edward Hopper:
Ed Lockwood assemblage of Hopper images
10/18/20: Paul Newman rises from the sea:
10/21/20: Unsettling still lifes:
paintings by Soutine and Chardin
10/30/2: Halloween still lifes:
Stephanie Shig, Georg Flegel, Roberto Bernardi