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A Queer Art ou Homo Art é um movimento artístico não oficializado, que ganhou força nos Estados Unidos e na Europa a partir da década de 1980. Suas criações abordam, de forma direta ou indireta, questões relacionadas à homossexualidade, com ligações à arte erótica, à arte conceitual e à arte contextual.
- Summary of Queer Art
- Key Ideas & Accomplishments
- Beginnings of Queer Art
- Queer Art: Concepts, Styles, and Trends
- Later Developments - After Queer Art
Any art that can be considered "queer" refers to the re-appropriation of the term in the 1980s, when it was snatched back from the homophobes and oppressors to become a powerful political and celebratory term to describe the experience of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people. Adhering to no particular style, for over more than a...
Because of the early criminalization of homosexual acts and the social stigma connected to homosexuality, much Queer Art employs coded visual language that would not arouse suspicion among the gene...With the rise of activism in the wake of the Civil Rights protests and the AIDS epidemic, Queer Art became more frank and political in its subject matter, forcing the viewers to recognize queer cul...The Identity Politicssurrounding Queer Art has sparked much debate, with some artists embracing Identity Politics and other eschewing it as not important for their work. The shifting nature of iden...Before 1861, the death penalty existed for people convicted of gay sexual acts in England and Wales. Laws were slightly more liberal in parts of Europe, but in United States, those found guilty of sodomy could be punished by mutilation in some states. Such consequences meant that any references to homosexuality in art had to be heavily hidden. Brit...
Painting
The raw expression invited by the medium of painting has allowed portraiture to become a space for the queer artist to explore notions of love and sexuality. From the covertly sexual works of John Singer Sargent to the more open and defiant male nudes of Larry Rivers, painting has provided a venue for the sensual element of the queer experience to be explored. British painter David Hockney'simages of men in showers and swimming pools show the celebration of gay love on canvas. Art historian R...
Murals, Graffiti, and the Public Space
Sculpture provided a way for the queer experience to be literally brought out of the closet and into the street, as in the work of George Segal's Gay Liberation, which was installed across the street from the old Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a still-growing piece of public art where people can commemorate via quilt squares loved ones lost to the disease. The Names Project, as it became known, was conceived by gay rights activist Cleve Jones in San Francisco....
Photography
Photography has provided a fertile ground to subvert "normalized" notions of love and sexuality and to bring what has traditionally been considered "deviant" into the light, thus bestowing it new agency. Whether they are Annie Leibovitz's images of the dying Susan Sontag, or Catherine Opie'simages of gay and lesbian domesticity, photography has proven a powerful medium to explore the queer experience. But it also found real power in subverting images from the AIDS crisis, during which the rig...
In a 1991 essay, Judith Butler argued that homosexual identity can never become a stable entity. She wrote, "Conventionally, one comes out of the closet [...] so we are out of the closet, but into what? What new unbounded spatiality?...Curiously, it is the figure of the closet that produces this expectation, and which guarantees its dissatisfaction...
Explore artists and artworks representing the queer community. From Andy Warhol to Zanele Muholi, discover the LGBTQ+ pioneers in our collection who have left their mark on art history.
20 de mar. de 2019 · Queering the Catalogue: A Look at Queer, Gay, and Trans Art and Artists. From Trans (New York, N.Y.: Jarret Key, 2017) Some LGBTQA+ artists have achieved world-renowned fame: Tom of Finland, David Hockney, Claude Cahun, and Glück, to name a few. However, there are many others whose work is less well-known but who provide important ...
Queer art, also known as LGBT+ art or queer aesthetics, broadly refers to modern and contemporary visual art practices that draw on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and various non-heterosexual, non-cisgender imagery and issues.
4 de jan. de 2023 · Dos dias 16 a 20 de janeiro de 2023, serão ministradas palestras sobre o tema com o intuito de aprofundar discussões sobre o que é a Arte Queer e como ela se integra na sociedade. Para mais informações, acesse o site do SESC e confira detalhes do projeto.
2 de jun. de 2023 · At its core, queer art serves the purpose of illuminating and elevating a historically marginalized segment of society. Determining the categorization of art as “queer” involves multiple facets, including the artist’s identity, thematic elements, intentional messages, and subject matter.
