art_________+/ELvis+______liVIngIn_GENeral.............................

 Some where along the line of creativity, I don’t where but I definitely think about other art__as well as my own; I wonder about who influences who.( Homoeroticism refers to same-sex erotic expression that is more subtle and less explicit than overt depictions of homosexual situations and behavior. Homoerotic content in art and literature can be either consciously or unconsciously intended by the artist or author.)   This is like my love and/or friendships over time as well, who influences who?

1. EMILio Baz viaud _________Born in Mexico City, Emilio Baz Viaud is painter little known, even in Mexico, whose work has only just started to be evaluated by experts. He studied architecture but was always interested in painting, and was a pupil of the artist Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, who guided him along the path to his real vocation as an artist. He did not give an individual exhibition until 1951, although he was featured in several collective exhibitions together with such eminent artists as Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. His meticulous technique in "trompe-l'oeil" style, achieved by applying oil paints to a dry surface, was praised by his colleagues and critics of the day, who unanimously compred his verism with the brushwork, to that of the great Renaissance masters such as Dürer and Boticelli. In the seventies he went through a period of abstract painting, but he is mainly known for his work done before 1955.
2.  bEN HUr bAZ Viaud____________+

I’ve not been one to think that my work exist..

                                                                In a vacumn..i mean, nothing is original, and I’m certain that my concepts, ideas, passions and expressions fall in similar groundation with others..or perhaps, I’m projecting; claim others impulses, and ideas short of  understanding what exactly is my work;

  http://www.culturabrasil.pro.br/portinari.htm

       how different is my portrait work from the work of a brazilian a half a century ago..

 The act of self-portraiture by the African-American artist necessarily engages
intense philosophical and conceptual problems of the ontological and epistemological
sort that inevitably bubble to the surface - interrogations that force one,
for example, to relativise the universalising claims of identity formation made in
the name of the Lacanian 'mirror phase'. As Ann Pellegrini has pointed out,
Lacanian concepts of subjectivity are inadequate for application to the racially
oppressed, for any 'positive' self-image of blackness secured in early identifications
with parental models contrasts sharply and automatically with 'the
distortion-effects of racism and the white gaze'.5 Both racism and racialisation
(the process of being raced from without) constitute a system of cultural power
having profound effects on subjectivity. The self-portraitist must work through
this system of signification before she/he can get to that essential, yet ultimately
elusive, T. Racialisation produces the black subject as incomplete, continually in
process of becoming and as a locus of ambiguous and constantly shifting
meaning. The racialised subject becomes 'trapped' within the condition of
disunity, continually split into pieces, shattered, identified from without, within
the contexts of modernity and colonialism. This experience provides the basis
upon which to consider the act of self-portraiture as a potentially therapeutic
necessity for bonding the public racial self with the private inner self (if indeed
such a self exists).  *Smalls, James(2001)'African-American self-portraiture',Third Text,15:54,47 — 62

(5 Ann Pellegrini,
Performance Anxieties:
Staging Psychoanalysis,
Staging Race, Routledge,
New York, 1997, p 81.) 

i lept to the above, because in essence, much of my figurative work is just that, an attempt to find myself, outside of the confines of this  "system of signification"  in either context, homosexual, or black 'american' male.    To  appropriate some'ting()

1.  ^{Reading Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms: Experiencing "the ordinary rope that can change in a  second to a lynches’’ noose or a rescue line" Vivian M. May Part 2: Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies}

i  read in a  review of  some one else's work..my work i think almost unconciously  'disrupts: philosophical distinctions between fact and value, knowledge and emotion, mind and body, self and other; polarized identity/bodily categories, including black and white, masculine and feminine, gay and straight; conventional oppositions between love and hatred, desire and destruction, empathy and appropriation; and spatial-geographical boundaries between inside and outside, home and street, heteronormative and queer spaces..'

.'

 and again to appropriate someone else's turn of a phrase..in which he was speaking of Paul Cadmus's work, but I am thinking it too chacterizes much of my 'intent' ..can i say that?

'Cadmus is just as compelling when exploring the personal and political proclivities of bodies in rest and motion. Male bodies, that is. More than most artists of his substantial stature, Cadmus has detailed with exquisite tenderness and unblinking bluntness the manner in which gay males--and the gay male gaze--represent the polemics of aesthetics.

Think of it this way: Cadmus's nudes--and, to a lesser yet still relevant extant, his studies of societal strata--offer us an opportunity to consider that beauty, though woundingly, agonizingly, deliciously seductive, also can be a ruthless guise, a four-letter word..'

       o.k., to review;

1. • Homoeroticism

   • self-portraiture

   • 'the
     distortion-effects of racism and the white gaze'

   • ambiguous and constantly shifting
     meaning

   • disruption

     
     personal and political proclivities of bodies in rest and motion. Male bodies

      

      

•                    Jack Balas

•                          Wes Hempel

•                         Mary Borgman

•                        Adin de Masi
  

•                         AES Art Group_+ VLADIMIR FRIDKES

•                         Martin Brouillette
  

•                        Kent Williams

•                       Anahita Vossoughi

•                      Henry Wuorila-Stenberg

•                      Odd Nerdrum 

•                      John Sonsini 

•                       Zeng Fahzhi

•                       Jacob collins 

•                      Joseph radoccia 

•                      Duggie Fields 

•                      david Germard Romero 

•                      maya Bloch aka mia.in.the.sky 

•                    carl James ferrero 

•                     Attila richard lukacs    

•                      Scott waters 

•                      aaron Smith        

•                     kyle Ranson

•                      dennis cooper

•                     albrecht Durer

•                      Matthias Hermann 

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        of course the first thing i notice about this list is that none of these artist (i think) are persons of color, or black; and in a little way, i'm kinda ashamed of that fact; like i'm way to focused on a certain subject matter that doesn't really seem to impact many black artist; or that I'm way too focused on euro/american (read white) art values. I do think I have some black artist specificly african but I failed to book mark their sites on this machine of which i am making this entry...