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.

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Paintings…The Male Form…Chapter Five

By Olga Khorosheva

Perhaps the female nude has been more focused on by the art world down through the ages, but the male form hasn’t been ignored.  Here are a few more samples.

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By Simon Dórdio Cesar Gomes (1890 – 1976)

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By Will McBride

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By Rex Slinkard (1887 – 1918)

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By Karl Hofer

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By Karl Persson

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By Robert Lohman

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Masterful Manipulations by Centaurus

Using Photoshop, Centaurus starts with an original painting, often an old master, then plucks out the female figures and inserts the image of a male, thereby creating a scene for like-minded men.

Altered Version of "Adirondacks" by Homer

Few have mastered so imaginatively this form of art on Photoshop.  See more of his work at Gay Art Parodies.

A variation of "Ball at Moulin del LaBalatte" by Renoir

Centaurus divides his work into three categories: 1.Male nude replacing Female in Famous Paintings;  2.Male nude added to Famous Paintings; 3. Fantasy Photos — Created by merging several images.

Variation of "Woman at Window" by Dali

Thinking images of the female nude in the history of art have been ubiquitous, Centaurus began creating what he called “Gender Bent” paintings.

A manipulation called Beach Greeting

A manipulation called Desire

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The Amazing Work of James Huctwith

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James Huctwith lives and work in downtown Toronto. Born in 1967, he was raised in rural Southern Ontario. He attended Cayuga Secondary School from 1981 until 1986, graduating with honours from Grade Thirteen. Afterwards, he studied fine art for three years at the University of Guelph, primarily interested in theory, history and architecture – citing professors Suzy Lake and Margaret Priest as influences.

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After this, he lived in Vancouver in the early ‘90’s where he first began to paint and exhibit. Returning to Toronto in 1995, he began producing and exhibiting professionally with the O’Connor Gallery. He was with the gallery for a decade, crediting the encouragement and support of the then proprietor, Dennis O’Connor, as “rare, invaluable and crucial to my ability to develop.”

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The next three years were marked by personal difficulty and marked changes. In the spring of 2005, Huctwith joined Gallery Jones in Vancouver for two years, and produced a run of ‘cooled-out’ non-figurative works, in contrast to the O’Connor shows which had been physically and emotionally explicit. Huctwith left O’Connor and joined Galerie Harwood near Montreal, also for two years, starting in 2006. The work produced for this gallery was marked primarily by considered re-interpretations of the still life genre.

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Feeling it was time to regroup and rediscover where he wanted to go with the work, Huctwith moved all his work back to Ontario, placing past work with Antonio Arch Fine Arts Ltd. in Toronto, and signing up with Galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa. His first show there, in the fall of 2009, was a success.

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