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Author: The era between
1982-92 was one off great loss, sadness, learning and culture awakening with in
the gay community and "homo art" around the world.As showen in the film (1)"Angles in America". Of course I am
talking about the Aids pandemic. This time in history is one of the most
important times in over 2000 years of gay culture because of what it symbolised
about us as people, our culture, beliefs and desires. The 1980's was a time for change for many. Bold thinking and hope is what the 80's have been remembered for as well as bold fashion and colours . On an intellectual level
this was directly translated into art. Most politicians ignored what was happening however art did not! To me this is a very important time being born in 1985 I believe that the power of what the 80's where has some how made me who I am as a gay person .
In my own studio work colour plays a never ending roll. I have always loved colour and on some cosmic level I consider myself to be a "Child of Colour" as most people who where born in the 1980's would consider themselves not in a racial form but an artistic one . This statement is very important as its translates itself to "Homo Art" from the 1980's right un-till the pressent day.But not only in art but in fashion too .
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Robert Lance Gösi ©2012
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Robert Lance Gösi ©2005
Gilbert and George
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Hunger (1982)
(3)‘We are driven by everything that is slightly taboo, by the forbidden.’ Sexuality is a central theme of Gilbert & George’s work, which is explored in images that are often provocative and disconcerting. Hunger and Thirst show a sexual act that is depicted in a cartoon-like, almost diagrammatic, manner. The artists have commented on these works: ‘we wanted to confront the viewers in a museum, as normally you don’t see this stuff, and make them accept it. It was done in a cartoon like way because in reality they would never have been accepted at that time’.
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Thirst (1982)
(4) In the 1990s, Gilbert and George made all-out war on every possible taboo associated with bodily fluids, extending their well-established turd genre to include everything else, such as blood and sperm. Their researches involved using a microscope to examine their own blood cells and urine crystals. They explained this in the following terms:‘Fundamentally, there’s something religious about the fact that we’re made of shit. We consist of the stuff. It’s our nourishment, it belongs to us, we’re part of it, and we show this in a positive light’.This attitude of not excluding anything as a subject for their art arose from their daily walks, were they came across the seamier aspects of life on the streets of Whitechapel.
Use of colour !
(5)After their initial hesitancy, Gilbert & George were remarkably confident in their use of colour. Bold areas of blue, yellow, red and green transform their black-and-white source images, shifting them from naturalism to an imaginatively charged, heightened reality. ‘Now we use more colours, but in each picture they mean something different… They can be symbolic or they can be atmospheric or emotional… It’s more a part of our own language, really – part of our vocabulary’, they have said."
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(6) Keith Haring was a talented pop artist who dedicated his career to bringing gay art and AIDS awareness to the masses. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring created innovative drawings on empty black advertising panels in the New York subway. Often producing dozens of these drawings in a day, Haring used his art to engage passers-by in the act of creation as well as the resulting images. In 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop, a Soho retail outlet selling his artwork on t-shirts, posters, toys, buttons, and magnets. While many in the art world criticized the shop’s commercialism, Haring remained committed to sharing his work affordably with a diverse audience. He received a great deal of support from his friend and mentor, fellow pop artist Andy Warhol. After being diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation to raise money and provide art to AIDS organizations and children’s programs. Haring dedicated his art and the two last years of his life to creating awareness and fostering understanding about AIDS. In 2008, two of his brightly colored sculptures were added to UNAIDS “Art for AIDS” collection. Haring’s brief but intense career was only the beginning of his growth as a gay icon. His colorful, provocative, and socially-conscious images form an important part of the history of gay symbolism.
(7)Gran Fury was an activist art collective that formed in the late 1980s as an offshoot of ACT UP. Gran Fury’s primary objectives were to educate the public, provoke direct action and expose government and civil negligence in regard to the AIDS pandemic. Graphic campaigns, using commercial advertising techniques, targeted the streets rather than galleries and museums. They are perhaps most famous for their image of three interracial couples (straight, gay and lesbian) kissing above the caption “Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do,” as well as their work at the 1990 Venice Biennale where they juxtaposed two billboards: the image of the Pope with a text about the church’s anti-safe-sex rhetoric; the other a two-foot-high erect penis with texts about women and condom use.
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(The pink triangle was originally used to denote homosexual men as a Nazi concentration camp badge.)
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(The pink triangle, rendered in hot pink and sometimes turned upright as a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally rendered in pink and used pointed downward on a Nazi concentration camp badge to denote homosexual men.)Author: It is important to look at colour usage and the culturally definition of the colours and there uses. Pink and Red featuring over most over other colours in "homo Art" but not so in other art form such as fashion where greens,blues,yellows and oranges where in common use .
Pink being a colour carried on from the 40's onto the 60's and more over the end of the 1970’s.As talked about the 1970's where time of activism . Red being a colour of war, fair and warning . Dos the mean that "Homo Art" where symbols of aggression . Yes and at the same time no. It was to catch the attention of the media . It was both a warning and a cry for political understanding. Red is also the colour of passion,which was held as sub context for the passion that people felt. Not only felt then due to the Aids era but felt as every day people . Pink being the colour of power and pride . Gay activests often refer to the term "Pink Power". In business the term's "Buying Pink", "Pink Line" and the "Pink Pound" refers to the buying power of the gay community ! Hot pink also featured in the original gay pride flag of 1979 . The colour Pink for the LGBT community holds the same meaning as the "white dove" for paces ....its powerful connotations carry on into the 1990's and 2000's .
(1)Angels in America.2003,Film Mike Nichols,America,HBO Home Video.
(2)Robert Lance Gösi Art,2012,Homos-Sexuality.[Online]Available at:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.270735392999685.65964.177273905679168&type=3
(3)Tate Modern,2010.Gilbert & George Hunger.[online]Available at: http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gilbert--george-hunger-ar00173
(4)Tate Modern,2010.Gilbert & George Thirst.[online]Available at: http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gilbert--george-thirst-ar00174
(4)Milwaukee Art Museum,2008,Gilbert & George development.[online]Available at:http://www.mam.org/gandg/details5.htm
(5)Revel & Riot,2011.Abrief History of Gay Art and Symbolisam.[Online] Avaliable at.http//www.http://revelandriot.com/lgbtq-art
(6)Revel & Riot,2011.Abrief History of Gay Art and Symbolisam.[Online] Avaliable at.http//www.http://revelandriot.com/lgbtq-art
(6)Revel & Riot,2011.Abrief History of Gay Art and Symbolisam.[Online] Avaliable at.http//www.http://revelandriot.com/lgbtq-art
(6)The Keith Haring Foundation,1997-2012,K.Haring.[Online]Avaliable at:http://www.haring.com/home.php
(7)Revel & Riot,2011.Abrief History of Gay Art and Symbolisam .[Online] Avaliable at.http//www.http://revelandriot.com/lgbtq-art
(7)Reed.C,2011.Art and Homosexuality A History of Ideas .Oxford.Oxford University Press( The Aids Decade,1982-92 "Art" pp.218-119)
(7)Laura Slezak Karas ,2008,Gran Fury Collection ,Pdf,The New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division .[Online]Avaliable at:http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/granfury_0.pdf
(8)Wikipedia,2012,Pink Triangle,[Online] Avaliable at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
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