Artist Roundup: Jozef Szekeres

Boy, haven't done an Artist Roundup in a while. Remember when this was the centerpiece of the entire blog? I suppose the reason it hasn't been around in a while is that great undiscovered muscle boy artists are a little like oil: there's a finite amount and eventually you start to dry up.

Every so often, though, someone new and impressive shows up, just like new oil wells are drilled or discovered.

This guy is Josef Szekeres, who is unapologetic about the beauty and almost androgynous sensuousness of his men. These aren't rugged pioneers with a five o'clock shadow, but etherially beautiful, sensual and youthful men. His favorite artistic subjects are fairy tales, elves, and Mer-Men.

Visit his deviantart gallery here. I highly recommend it. His art is the sort that can't be contained by tiny blogger windows.

Agnes Varda, my favorite French director ever, had a great line in LE PETITE AMOUR, one of her best movies: "Do all women love boys...or just those without sons?" The film was about a divorcee with two girls that makes herself sexually available to a nervous, awkward young man because she wants to revisit her youth. I am reminded of that quote now with his art.

The single piece of his that made me a fan was this one:

Now, I never had a bad thought about a ginger guy before, but the idea of a brawny sauna stud with freckles all over his beautiful torso, arms and legs? Now that's just great. I'd love to count the freckles on his body.