Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Lingam

 Lingam, Michael Kehrlein, Paris 1983, Granite

The lingam has been interpreted as a symbol of male creative energy

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Manly Essence


Phantom in my closet


Emile Kehrlein

This is my great-grandfather, a very manly male indeed! He was the owner of the Nymphia in San Francisco. The Nymphia was the the biggest brothel on the Barbary coast in 1899 with 300 women.
What a MAN! (erat scriptum)

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Renaissance

Bindo Altoviti, Raphael Sanzio 1514

Male beauty in the high Renaissance painted by a humanist.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Iconic Males


James and Marlon

These two "iconic males" brought the tee shirt out of the closet. James, with his cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve of his tee, in "Rebel without a cause" and Marlon, scratching/carressing(?) himself through his tee, in  "A streetcar named desire".

Antithesis


Princess X, Constantin Brancusi

Male/Female?