Month: March 2015

Lin Jun-Liang

 

Paintings by Lin Jun-Liang

Lin Jun-Liang was born in 1979 in Hualien, Taiwan. He studied at the National Taiwan University of Art, Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts and Shih Chien University Department of Communications Design (BA).

Jun-Liang’s work includes video installations, post-system effects clips, expressionist portraits, and paintings. His artwork exams the removal of personal identity, the freedom from external control, and the range of human feelings. Lin Jun-Liang was recognized in 2009 and in 2012 by the National Taiwan Museum of Youth Collection and in 2014 for the Taipei Art Award.

George Platt Lynes, “Jared French”

George Platt Lynes, “Jared French, August 1938”, 1938, Gelatin Silver PrintThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

George Platt Lynes took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker, who explored sexuality and the body in an age that increasingly favored abstraction. 

The subject of this photograph, Jared French, was an important painter in the world of gay New York artists. French also served as the subject of Luigi Lucioni’s portrait as well as the model for Paul Cadmus’s “Gilding the Acrobats”, both of which are housed in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

James Jeffers

 

James Jeffers, “Hesperidium Magnoliopsida”

“Roses and violets from summer gardens, sun-drenched Sicilian lemons squeezed of their juice and mingled with juniper from the frozen north. Saffron threads and gold leaf from the Indies waited to be turned into something magical. And contained deep within all of this was a smile that flooded him with warmth, a pair of blue eyes, and the scent of chocolate…”

― Laura Madeleine, The Confectioner’s Tale

 

Alexander Dumas: “Life is a Storm, My Young Friend”

Photographer unknown, (Pale Blue Eyes)

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” 

—Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo