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Caught in the Net: All About Culture and Art

It’s time for another look at the intersection between sex and artwork, so prepare yourselves for some transcendent human expression and high culture.

Syracuse artist Meg Abraham, who signs her work “Megallion,” does charcoal drawings of nudes . . . while she’s in the nude. Her reasons were more practical than prurient; she ruined a lot of clothes with stray charcoal marks. Drawing nude worked so well for her, she kept it up, though she works from photographs, not from life, so strike those images of artist and models naked together in a room from your mind. The method doesn’t have a lot to do with her artwork, but it makes a nice hook for a reporter’s story, and for an emerging artist, that’s important. (I’ll refrain from letting you guys know whether or not I write this column in the nude. Let your imaginations run wild.)

Megallion might draw while she’s naked, but Tim Patch — AKA “Pricasso” — draws with his cock. Seriously. He puts paint on his dick and his dick to canvas. And, you know, his work isn’t half bad, though his series of female nudes might be a bit obvious — he presumably has to keep a hard-on while painting, which is probably easier when you’re looking at a naked woman — but his paintings of various world leaders take on a whole new dimension when you think about the method of their creation. How anyone can maintain an erection while thinking about some of those people is beyond me. Patch calls himself “the world’s greatest penile artist,” and it’s hard to imagine he has that much competition. There are lots of samples of his work at his site, but a distressing lack of time-lapse videos showing him creating paintings in real-time.

Back before the internet provided hot and cold running porn on demand, schoolkids with an artistic turn of mind could make a little pocket change drawing nude pictures for their classmates, and Naked Chicks on Post-it Notes celebrates such ingenuity, with more than 230 drawings so far. (Like his drawings? You can bid on the sketches on eBay.)

You can also buy prints of the weird and distinctive erotic artwork of Gianluca Mattia, which runs from fetishy to punky to horror-tinged, from tattoos to hot-rods to pin-up girls.

And, finally, a simple link to a piece of artwork: “Who The Fuck Is Wittgenstein?”. An extremely strange amalgam of hentai and philosophy. Like all great art, is seems to pose far more questions than it answers, don’t you think?

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