The Mythic, Homoerotic Art of Delmas Howe

Delmas Howe (born October 22, 1935) is an American Painter and muralist whose figurative work depicts mythological and archetypal – sometimes homoerotic – themes in a neoclassical, realist style. After graduation from high school he progressed through undergraduate work at Wichita State University, then four years in the US Air Force, a move to the East Coast, graduate work at Yale University and several years of classes in NYC at the Art Students’ League and the School of the Visual Arts while working as a professional musician. After a return to the West and a successful design studio in Amarillo, Texas he returned to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.His work is in the collections of a number of museums including the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History where his important transitional painting “The Three Graces” from 1978 is on permanent view. Source: Wikipedia

The Three Graces

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Katrine Neoromantika Redefines Sensuous Photography

If imagination was defined by its value in gold, Katrine Neoromantika would be Gold Finger. If talent was an ocean, Katrine would be the Pacific. If sensuality was a city, she would be Paris. She has taken the art form of photography and reinvented it.

It’s difficult to imagine being the man in front of Katrine’s lens. Most likely you would be naked. Not only your body, but your very core would be exposed. You are likely to be in for some rather pleasant surprises you could have never envisioned. Your image would be destined to live forever in the annals of high art. Emotionally, you would forever be changed.

Sometimes Katrine models for herself, sometimes for other photographers. The images above and below are of her, taken by herself. To see more, or buy a print, visit:

WWW.NEOROMANTIKA.COM

Some people believe gay men can be turned straight. Institutions and rehabilitation centers exist for that purpose … all of which have dismal records. If such a conversion were actually possible, if it had a chance to succeed, I dare say a photo shoot with Katrine Neoromantika would be more effective than all the other institutions combined. Clearly, Katrine is talented. She is also one of the most beautiful women on the planet. She either modeled for or photographed herself for all the female images in this piece.

Katrine is a Russian photographer inspired by a genuine interest in men, their emotionality, their beauty and their most secret sexual desires, based on her life experiences not common in women her age.

From Katrine’s biography:

“Neoromantika was born in 1982 and throughout her childhood she moved repeatedly to various locations, including a military operations base. Throughout her life she has been engaged in different kinds of creative endeavors, such as art, dance and music. For sixteen years, she was devoted to music and enjoyed an active musical career – singing and playing in different underground musical groups. At the same time, she worked as a nurse in hospital; however because of a serious traumatic experience, she has been compelled to stop the musical activity.”

“At that point, she began to search for the possibility of an emotional realization in other kinds of arts and she started with photography. Katrine has studied with well-known Russian BDSM photographer Vlad Gansovsky, with whom she experienced first-hand how to work with models.

 All of the skills that she has learned and various life experiences that she had have quickly helped her to find her unique theme for creativity.”

Nothing about a man is taboo: his physical beauty, his psyche, his fantasies, nor any shadowy nuance of his body.

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Katrine is just as open-minded when she models. Her beauty, her submissiveness, her feminine wiles, all of her is in the hands of the photographer. What credentials that photographer must have. Continue reading

A Wet Cloth … A Penis

Most men can think of a number of things to use their penises for. A few of them can be quite creative. A certain Australian uses his as an art form, thus A Wet Cloth … A Penis.

Also see A Man in the Bath

This from the thoughts of this beautiful man:

I’ve been thinking a lot about the qualities of ones mind, ones thinking, that seem to flower on this journey of self awakening. Heralded in a sense by the awakening shift and broadening of ones masculine sexuality, but independent of it, something much deeper, even ethereal.

Feelings of freedom, of stinginess and narrow thoughts and attitudes falling away, no treacherous ledges left to cling to as they once did, a joy rising like a cool new moon seeks this same joy for the whole spectrum of beings, taking root with a wish for the happiness and healing of the world.

Appreciation of small things once loved and crooned over take on new life, presence and meaning. A desire to simply ‘be kind’ takes form and heart. It travels far beyond mere notions of masculinity awakened.

These concepts we label bisexuality, rise to meet and fade away from something much deeper in us, hidden in the mud, waiting for the sunlight to find it’s way down through the darkening water, and slowly a seed germinates, a new plant, rising up, reaching to the nurturing light of day, to break the surface, and there in the cloudless rain beneath endless blue sky a lotus flower appears, it’s soft perfectly formed petals opening like the most gentle of ballerinas arms spreading out to the heavens.

To sleep per chance to dream, to find a truth yet hidden, that only the wisdom good heart can truly know. If he were your colleague at work, you would know him as a nice guy, a thoughtful individual that simply makes the world a better place to live. You would never know the private thoughts that form in his mind, the quiet aspirations, the dreams.

No, he would not make a mule envious, nor would he make a size queen giddy with joy, but he ranks among the most beautiful men that grace these pages. It was a midlife awakening that sang its poetic joys through his body, an awakening that he may very well share with some fortunate future companion.

It strikes me as sublime how intimate a man can be with himself, that we can enjoy and marvel at ourselves and be so consciously aware of it. Such miracles are our bodies. How dare the ancient autocrats try to interfere with it.

How sensuous this fine piece of cloth must feel again this masculine body, damp and sheer Continue reading

Roberto Ferri

Roberto Ferri (born 1978) is an Italian artist and painter from Taranto, Italy. His stunning work is represented in important private collections in Rome, Milan, London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, San Antonio (Texas), Qatar, Dublin, Boston, Malta, and the Castle of Menerbes in Provence.

As a modern-day talent, painting in a classical style, Roberto Ferri is giving the world an artist’s view of the beauty of the human form. His work is stunning.

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