Artists Part 6c

Louis Fratino (continued)

In this last post on Louis Fratino, we'll see how he treats gay sex as a subject for art.

10 a.m., 2019 shows a bedroom embrace, but it's tender and not explicit.

Likewise, in A Breeze, 2017, two guys are in bed, asleep.  There's nothing sexual except where one of the guy's hands is resting.

Three blue nudes (Tristan, me, Ben), 2018 takes things up a notch with what the center figure is doing.

And a notch further in this untitled work that I call "Blue handjob."

This sketch for the painting Reconfiguration is extremely explicit.

But the final painting Reconfiguration, 2018 leaves the penetration to our imagination, perhaps to focus on the twisted bodies and Picasso-like faces.

However, Early Spring, 2019 leaves nothing to the imagination.  That appears to be Fratino on the bottom.

Reunion, 2017 leaves nothing to the imagination, either.

In Relax, 2017, it's pretty clear what they're doing even though it's not explicitly shown.  Fratino is looking at us from the bottom as if to say "Relax.  It's just sex."