Los angeles erotic flowers
7 Mar Mapplethorpe's flower pictures are rigorously composed to achieve an aura of cool detachment (Credit: Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation/Phaidon). This March is the month of Mapplethorpe, with two major exhibitions opening in Los Angeles – at the J Paul Getty Center and the Los Angeles County.
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But for much of his career (cut short in by his death, of AIDS, at 42) the New York artist also created pictures of flowers, including 's Parrot Tulips. The genres are not unrelated, says Britt Salvesen, co-curator of a retrospective opening this month at both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty.
Description:And John Singer Sargent — whose sexuality is unattested, but who remained a bachelor and who painted numerous gay men and lesbians through his career — also turned frequently to flowers. Calla lilies, tulips, African daisies: And photography, as practiced by artists of both sexes, overtook painting as the principal medium to explore the sex life of flowers. For gay artists, in fact, the hermaphroditism of flowers — most have both pistils and stamens — had a particular symbolic appeal.
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