HENRY SCOTT TUKE was a British painter born to a Quaker family in 1858. He’s best known for his luminous coastal scenes of young men, focusing on everyday moments of swimming, sailing, and rest.
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I am no longer interested in "reality", I don't carte about it, it is dull and boring. Only dreams matter, dreams and art and memories.
(If you want to agitate for a political cause, or sell or get sex, this account might not be the right place for you.)
Only art, only dreams, only memories.
Pastel drawing on brown A4 paper.
17.9.2025 (N355).
Reference: vintage photo by Baron von Gloeden (I do not know the catalog number).
Kirill Fadeyev
Front view - A dramatic marble sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, titled Ugolino and His Sons (1865–1867), depicting the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca sitting in a state of intense mental and physical anguish. Four of his starving children and grandsons cling to his body in a writhing mass, as he looks away with a pained expression, his fingers at his mouth, contemplating their fate as described in Dante's Inferno. The sculpture is known for its detailed anatomical realism and emotional depth.
Arm detail - A dramatic marble sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, titled Ugolino and His Sons (1865–1867), depicting the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca sitting in a state of intense mental and physical anguish. Four of his starving children and grandsons cling to his body in a writhing mass, as he looks away with a pained expression, his fingers at his mouth, contemplating their fate as described in Dante's Inferno. The sculpture is known for its detailed anatomical realism and emotional depth.
Foot detail - A dramatic marble sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, titled Ugolino and His Sons (1865–1867), depicting the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca sitting in a state of intense mental and physical anguish. Four of his starving children and grandsons cling to his body in a writhing mass, as he looks away with a pained expression, his fingers at his mouth, contemplating their fate as described in Dante's Inferno. The sculpture is known for its detailed anatomical realism and emotional depth.
Side view - A dramatic marble sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, titled Ugolino and His Sons (1865–1867), depicting the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca sitting in a state of intense mental and physical anguish. Four of his starving children and grandsons cling to his body in a writhing mass, as he looks away with a pained expression, his fingers at his mouth, contemplating their fate as described in Dante's Inferno. The sculpture is known for its detailed anatomical realism and emotional depth.
Ugolino and His Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, C. 1860 (marble)
#jeanbaptistecarpeaux #ugolino #marble #statue #sculpture #romanticart #art
This statue is the oldest Buddhist sculpture with an inscribed date that has ever been found in Korea. The inscription on the back of the halo states that it was produced in 539 in the Goguryeo Kingdom. Adapting the overall style of Buddhist sculpture from China’s Northern Wei Dynasty with domestic elements, this statue is viewed as one of the first attempts to establish and assert Korean aesthetics. It is currently exhibited in the Buddhist Sculpture Gallery of National Museum of Korea. Soon after the Goguryeo Kingdom embraced Buddhism, which had been transmitted from China’s Former Qin, Chomunsa Temple and Ibullansa Temple were built in 375, followed by Gusa Temple in Pyongyang in 393. During his reign, Goguryeo’s King Jangsu relocated the capital to Pyongyang. In accordance, he also had the tomb of King Dongmyeong moved to Pyongyang, and constructed a huge temple, Jeongneungsa Temple, next to the tomb. Unfortunately, there are no extant artifacts or records revealing the nature or style of Buddhist sculptures that were enshrined in these temples. Although Buddhism was first introduced to Korea around the fourth century of the Three Kingdoms period, the vast majority of extant Korean Buddhist sculptures were produced after 500 C.E. This gap indicates that Buddhism did not immediately take root with all of the Korean people. Finally beginning to fill in that gap, this gilt-bronze Buddha with an inscription that reads “seventh year of yeonga” marked a new beginning for the history of Korean sculpture. In the summer of 1963, the statue was accidentally discovered in Uiryeong, South Gyeongsang Province. Despite its small size (16.2 cm high), it has enormous significance as the oldest Korean sculpture with an inscribed date and the first Korean Buddhist statue showing indigenous aesthetics.
Standing Buddha sculpture
gilt bronze
circa 539 CE
Goguryeo Kingdom
Korea
#buddha #buddhism #korea #koreanbuddhism #buddhiststatue #buddhistsculpture #ancientart #ancientsculpture #giltbronze #sculpture #art #koreanart #goguryeokingdom #c539CE #ancientkorea #seoul #nationalmuseumofkorea
Ref. photo: "Kunst im Bild. Der Indische Raum." p.36.
Sketch of a Greco-Buddhist Bodhisattva, 2. century.
Graphite pencil on A4 paper.
20.4.2026.
Reminds me of "La nascita di Venere" by Botticelli . This photo might be an expression of Gloedens desire of a renaissance of the renaissance. The rebirth of the rebirth of antiquity at the fin de siecle.
Thank you, for keeping Gloedens dream still alive.
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Sicilian Boy with Lily Crown and Halo, 1899
The image is a painting by Hans von Marées titled Drei Jünglinge unter Orangenbäumen (Three Youths under Orange Trees), depicting three nude young men in an idyllic, mythological landscape. One youth is reaching into an orange tree, another sits on the ground with his back to the viewer, and a third sits facing the viewer, pointing towards the fruit.
Dre Jünglinge unter Orangenbäumen (Three Young Men under Orange Trees by Hans von Marées, 1873-1875 (mixed media on panel)
#hansvonmarees #painting #art #figurativeart #Neoclassicism
Charcoal and pastel pencil on A4 paper (Hahnemühle Skizze/Pastell)
14.3.2025
Reference: a vintage photo by Gloeden.
“Bathers at Black Rock”, 1930, by Ludwig von Hofmann (1861–1945). oil on canvas
Is this beautiful but kind of sad sculpture sepulchral art?
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova
Krishna, between two pots with butter, his hands besmeared with butter, some of which is dropping down. He is looking back, as if somebody just came, and he might have a bad consciousness, or not.
Lord Krishna, stealing butter
Graphite pencils on A4 paper
Karrttikeya, 19.4.2026.
Reference: an illustration by Ram Waeerker (in amar chitra katha, Krishna)
Werdende Kraft/Growing Strength (1904), Sascha Schneider
A3 paper. I can not write anything without typos.
Charcoal on A4 paper.
(cropped)
Karrttikeya 18.4.2026
#charcoaldrawing #traditionalart #fear #gayart #bl #handdrawn
And "moral panic".
WIP, 17.4.2026
Willow charcoal on A3 paper.
#charcoaldrawing #traditionalart
Ref: Gloeden n.192, "Due ragazzi accanto a fronda di palma"
Pastel drawing of a nude male leaning against a palm tree.
Pastel / Conte drawing by Karrttikeya.
Date: 31.03.2025
Conte sticks (= hard pastel) on A4 Hahnemühle pastel paper.
Reference photo: by Manfred Schür, 1980s, Sri Lanka.
#gayart #malenude #malenudeinart #gayhistory #pasteldrawing #traditionalart
Ludwig von Hofmann (1861-1945) - Boy in a rocky landscape.
Oil on canvas, 44,4 x 24.5 cm
