ART

By bori#2722
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    Event 1

    Symbolism: Hidden or coded references to Queer Identity
    Imagery: Gender ambiguity, and allegory
    Techniques: Photomontage, portraiture, classical draftmanship
    Signifience: The Foundational period marks the birth of queer visual expression in western art, long before LGBTQ+ identities were publicly acknowledged or legally protected.
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    Event 1: Emergence of Queer Art

    Key Features: Hidden symbolism, coded imagery, gender ambiguity
    Context: Artists Navigated censorship and societal taboos. Queer themes were often veiled or allegorical
    Artists Claude Cahun, Romaine Brooks, Paul Cadmus
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    Event 2

    Repository: Whitney Museum of America Art
    Art Movement: Queer Art
    Signifance: A melanophore for Crisis, this image and critiques and political evokes collective loss
    Media: Photostat Print
    Dimensions: 24 x 36 IN
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    Event 2: Queer Visibility and Activism

    Key Features: Bold Identity politics, protest art, photography collage
    Context: Post-Stonewall era, rise of LGBTQ+ rights movements, AIDS Crisis
    Artists: David Wojnarowicz, Harmony Hammond, Peter Hujar
    24 x 36 in
    A metaphor for queer suffering during AIDS crisis, The image critiques political indifference evokes collective loss.
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    Event 3: Queer Domesticity and Identity

    Key Features: Portraitures, self-representation domestic scenes
    Context: Artist explored queer family, gender fluidity and intersectionality
    Artist: Catherine Opie, Mickalene Thomas, Felix Gonzalez Torres
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    Event 3

    Media: Chromogenic Museum
    Art Movement: Queer Art
    Significance: Opie's carved back challenges norms of motherhood and queer visibility blending pain and Intimacy.

    Dimensions: 20 x 24 In
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    Event 4: Global and Intersectional Queer art

    Key Features: Multimedia, Activism, race/gender/identity intersections
    Context: Expand beyond Western narratives; include BIPOC and global queer voices
    Artists: Zanela Mucholi, Juliana Huxtable, Raoghel Perez
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    Event 4

    Media: Gelatin silver point
    Dimensions: 50 x 40 In
    Repository: Tate Modern
    Art Movement: Queer art
    Significance: This striking portrait reclaims Black queer identity in South Africa, blending activism and beauty

    Citation: Muholi, Zanele. Ntozakhe II, Parktown. 2016. Tate Modern,
    https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/zanele-muholi-19998.