For those of you interested in "The Queer Art World" panel session coming
up in NYC, here's something to introduce you to some big queer art names in
the 20th century...
-- Roberto
>Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:32:36 -0500
>From: glbtq <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: glbtq Spotlights Twentieth-Century European Art
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Welcome to the April 1, 2004 newsletter of www.glbtq.com, the online
>encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture.
>
>___________________________________________
>IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Twentieth-Century European Art
>
>A large number of significant twentieth-century European artists focused
>on queer themes, making glbtq issues crucial in understanding
>twentieth-century European art.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/eur_art8_20c.html
>
>Francis Bacon (1909-1992) may be Britain's most important
>twentieth-century painter.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/bacon_f_art.html
>
>French-born Claude Cahun (1894-1954) is known today primarily for creating
>art that plays with concepts of gender.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/cahun_c.html
>
>Influential French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was considered both a
>genius and an irreverent prankster.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/duchamp_m.html
>
>Gluck (Hannah Gluckenstein, 1895-1978) defied the conventions of her time,
>but left her mark on modern art in England.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/gluck.html
>
>Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a major twentieth-century artist, has been
>called "the Matisse of Britain."
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/grant_d.html
>
>British artist Dorothy Hepworth (1898-1978) may have produced most of the
>art sold under the name of her partner, Patricia Preece (1900-1971).
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/hepworth_preece.html
>
>German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for
>photo-montages critiquing bourgeois culture.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/hoch_h.html
>
>English-born David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the liveliest and most
>versatile visual artists of his generation.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/hockney_d.html
>
>French artist Marie Laurençin (1883-1956) was associated with the lesbian
>salons of Gertrude Stein and Natalie Clifford Barney.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/laurencin_m.html
>http://www.glbtq.com/literature/stein_g.html
>http://www.glbtq.com/literature/barney_nc.html
>
>Polish-born artist Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) remains popular today
>for her highly sexualized art deco portraits.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/lempicka_t.html
>
>German artist Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) created some of the most
>sympathetic depictions of lesbians since Sappho.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/lempicka_t.html
>
>French artists Pierre et Gilles (founded 1976) create stylistically unique
>painted photographs that capture modern gay life.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/mammen_j.html
>
>Avant-garde Italian artist Filippo De Pisis (1896-1956) is best known for
>his city-scapes, still lifes, and male nudes.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/pisis_ft.html
>
>Surrealism is an artistic movement that embraced the idea that art is an
>expression of the subconscious.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/surrealism.html
>
>In his drawings, Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991) created a
>hyper-masculine, working-class version of homosexual manhood.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/tom_finland.html
>
>Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) filled his canvases with
>homoerotic images.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/tsarouchis_y.html
>
>British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) specialized in the depiction of
>male nudes in landscape.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/vaughan_k.html
>
>Dame Ethel Walker (1861-1951) is best known for her portraits of women and
>for works with mythological themes.
>http://www.glbtq.com/arts/walker_e.html
>
>___________________________________________
>NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS, April 1 through April 14
>
>April 1: Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, 1809; Blues singer Alberta Hunter, 1895
>
>April 2: Dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, 1905
>
>April 3: British diarist Anne Lister, 1791
>
>April 5: British writer Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837; actor Nigel
>Hawthorne, 1929
>
>April 6: German filmmaker Monika Treut, 1954
>
>April 7: Chilean Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, 1889; French novelist
>Violette Leduc, 1907
>
>April 8: Broadway choreographer and director Michael Bennett, 1943
>
>April 9: French poet Charles Baudelaire, 1821
>
>April 10: British poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647
>
>April 11: American novelist Dorothy Allison, 1949
>
>April 12: Playwright and drag performer Charles Ludlam, 1943; Indigo Girl
>Amy Ray, 1964
>
>April 13: African-American novelist Nella Larsen, 1891; playwright Lanford
>Wilson, 1937
>
>April 14: Actor Sir John Gielgud, 1904
>
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