Intact Art Gallery

John Singer Sargent
"Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller" (1917-1920)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund

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Illustration to Genet's 'Querelle de Brest''

"Jeune Homme Nu"
(He is clearly retracting his foreskin to wash it, and he isn't complaining about the tedium of that.)

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Escher's 'Mosaic 2'

guru from Escher's ''Mosaic 2''

guru's penis

M. C. Escher's intiguing etchings routinely show any nude males as intact, such as this Buddha-like figure (in Mosaic II, 1957) ...

Optimists and pessimists

Optimist

... and not only the optimists emerging from this frieze (Encounter, 1944)

but also, as Escher's working drawings show, ...

Pessimist

... the pessimists.

Paul Cadmus ''Standing youth''

Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) finely details his model's penises


"Victory of St Michael" (1958)

The postcards don't show you this:


Cathedral of St Michael, Coventry, UK
Epstein, being Jewish, would have little experience of foreskins and this (with its folds and lack of a "spout" c.f. the fountain in the house of the Vetii), is not typical. He frequently attracted controversy for his nude male sculptures. One, "Day", was allowed to remain on the St James Street Station, London, only after he took 1.5" (4 cm) off its penis. This may explain a report that one of his statues was "circumcised". His other work shows males as intact.

	"Rush of Green" (1959) , South Carriage Drive, Kensington, London

Sir Jacob Epstein ( 1880-1959)


"The New Adam" by Harold Stevenson is huge (8' x 39', 2.44 m x 11.89 m) wrapping around the viewer on nine panels. The reference to Michaelangelo's is clear, but this is no boy. The model was Sal Mineo

the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York


David Hockney's 1967 illustration to C P Cavafy's poems stresses line, rather than shading, giving a flat look to the model's penis, though the sulcus and acroposthion are indicated.


Conversely Francisco Lòpez's 1973 nude torso is finely shaded, emphasising the penis' dorsal vein.


Cliff Whiting, Te Wehenga o Rangi r?ua ko Papa (the separation of the Sky Father from the Earth Mother), 1974, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna M?tauranga o Aotearoa. 7.59m x 2.65m According to the M?ori creation myth, T?nemahuta, god of the forests, pushes up with his feet to separate the Sky Father from the Earth Mother and free him and his brother gods from their parents' age-long embrace. He is flanked on the left by Tangaroa, god of the oceans, Haumia-tiketike, god of wild foods, Rongom?t?ne, god of cultivated foods, and T?matauenga, god of war and of man, who all supported his action, and on the right by T?whirm?tea, god of storms, who opposed it. All are intact, unlike in many other Polynesian cultures, notably the Cook Islands, which portrays Tangaroa as cut, even on its coinage.

Rongom?t?ne's penis	T?nemahuta's penis	T?whirim?tea's penis

''Archoiochos Alone'' by Michael Ayrton

Archilochos' penis

"Archilochos Alone"
by Michael Ayrton
(1921-1975)

''Poseidon's gifts'' by Michael Ayrton

Poseidon's penis

"Poseidon's Gifts"
Poseidon's raphe and
acroposthion can be
clearly seen.

''Richard'' by Kitaj

Richard's penis

"Actor (Richard)", painted in 1979
by R. B. Kitaj, has a "peeper",
a shorter than average foreskin.


Josep Maria Subirachs, 1987

The crucified Jesus on the "Passion" façade of Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, is intact, probably not to deny his Jewishness, but because the sculptor and the audience could not imagine him being different from themselves. (Another famous nude Jesus, by Michelangelo, is in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome, but his penis has been vandalised and is now covered. It was almost certainly portrayed as intact.)

While the character of Gollum in the film of The Lord of the Rings is almost entirely computer-generated and wears a tiny loincloth that doesn't seem to hide much, oversized models were used by Weta Workshops to help make him so lifelike, and a picture of one in Cinefex magazine shows the artists conceived him as intact, as is a maquette of the Cave Troll in the Lord of the Rings exhibition - as of course they should be (but it wouldn't be so certain if they were made in the US).

Picture to come.


	Mural in the Kaiserbruendl sauna, Vienna, by Stefan Riedl (Genannt Triebl), one of several that all (of course) portray intact men.

English artist John Carter
(1927-2004) takes
intactness for granted
in his Big Catch

'Reclining Middle-Aged 'Man'' by John Willcocks

Reclining Middle-Aged Man's penis

This "Reclining Middle-Aged Man"
by John Willcocks (1934-2021)
has a clearly delineated peeper.


	Prometheus and the Wanderer Variation 23 Figure in a Psychoscape

Australian James Gleeson painted both intact and cut men in surrealistic settings ("Psychoscapes"),
apparently based on the models' own anatomy, even in mythological subjects.
Male genital cutting was in decline in Australia during this period, the 1950s-60s

- James Gleeson (1915-2008)


	Pierre (Commoy, 1950- , photographer) et Gilles (Blanchard, 1953-, painter) create highly processed images, mainly of erotic male and/or religious subjects. Their "Matador (Fernando Leonne)" (1999) sold at Christie's to a private collector in 2011 for €37,000 (€41,136 in 2021 or $US46,554) but in 2015 it sold again for only £18,750 (£20,539 in 2021 or $US27,248)

Angela's Men is a gallery
of treated photographs
of intact men, many closeups.
Treatment is commonly a metallic finish,
such as copper.

Paul Davis Jones of Phildelphia has painted a series
of extreme closeups of foreskins,
"the Intact Project", coloured to give an abstract, rose-like effect.
He writes,
"AS EACH FORM EMERGED ON THE CANVAS,
THE JOY OF CREATION BECAME ANGER
AS I ASKED MYSELF WHY ANYONE
WOULD CHOOSE TO DESTROY THIS UNIQUE
AND BEAUTIFUL PART OF A MALE'S BODY."

Most of this sequence - the previous five pages - has been turned into a slide show with music.

Jonathan Yeo painted two portraits of entrepreneur Ivan Massow three months apart, during which Massow lost three stone (19 kg) and grew a beard.

In his book "Uncut: the natural history of the foreskin", Sherwin Carlquist includes a sequence of Annie Liebowitz-like portraits of intact penises in natural settings.

Foreskin and roses, by Sherwin Carlquist

Foreskin and driftwood, by Sherwin Carlquist

Foreskin and clam, by Sherwin Carlquist


	Photographer Dylan Ricci likes to partially conceal his models' faces and genitals.


	Max Patte's oxidised steel "Solace in the Wind" stands on the Wellington, NZ, waterfront. Though undetailed, his penis shows a corona covered by a foreskin


"Redemption Song" by Laura Lacey stands 3.3m (11 feet) tall in Emancipation Park, Kingston, Jamaica.


"Event Horizon" by British artist Antony Gormley consists of four cast-iron and 27 fibreglass casts of his own nude body, placed at ground level and poised on the edges of buildings. It was exhibited in London in 2007 and in New York in 2010. It may have taught the young man in the green sweater something he won't learn at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. More Photo credi



	Lost Horizon I in the Royal Academy of Arts, London, features 24 cast iron images (possibly from the same mould as ''Event Horizon'') of Gormley's own body. The London audience finds nothing exceptional about their intactness.


	"Fallen Angel", Temple of Concordia, Sicily

		"Blindfolded Icarus"
Polish-German artist Igor Mitoraj creates oversized mutilated torsoes in classical style, but the males are in modern proportions.

Maryland artist Michael Dulin uses terra cotta to illustrate the beauty of the intact penis.


	"Lightning Strike" 2015	Untitled (reclining male nude) 2015

"The Lesson (How To Be
A Man)"
2017

	"Shatttered" (2018)

Philip Gladstone of Maine (1963- ) paints and draws largely allegories and self-portraits,
frequently nude and always intact.

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