March 2021

ADAMSARTEXPOSE’
THE EXOTIC AND EROTIC ART DEPICTING LOVE INSPIRED BY THE
THE VERNAL EQUINOX
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Spring is commonly associated with
the phenomenon of renewal. In a climate
where deciduous trees have been dormant,
hibernating from life, leafless and ominous in
their bare dark branches resembling crooked
witch’s fingers twisting in the wind. With the
first rays of warm spring sunshine, the juices of
these trees begin to flow through the trunk and
into the branches producing emerging yellowgreen
buds which will become the green leaves
of summer
The emergence of the Vernal Equinox
bringing on spring also has profound effects
on the human species creating similar erotic
arousal as those in the natural world. In Japan
the Shunga translated to “spring pictures”,
has a history, beginning prior to the 1600s,
with paintings on handscrolls and books
representing erotic visuals of the enjoyment
of sex showing female, male, and same-sex
encounters of blooming sexuality that is
stimulated during the spring season.
Dried bulbs that have been buried in the
soil five months earlier are sprouting from their
frozen graves to show new colorful life as tulips,
lilies, and daffodils. along with the wildflowers
blooming on the hillsides to create a burst of
color throughout the landscape. Artists coming
after and influenced by the impressionist period
identified as the Fauves, attempted to create
the vision of spring using wild sporadic colors
such as the painting by Matisse of the colorful
landscape shown in this article.
Domestic farm animals are calving,
lambing, pigging, and hatching. Franc Marc
another Fauves artist illustrates a young boy
saving a lamb from a flood.
Love the most profound human emotion
is visualized in graphic color and letters by
Robert Indiana’s paintings of LOVE which
has been done in a variety of forms and
translated to three-dimensional sculpture. Love
depicted by artists in the LBGTQ community
legitimatizes love between same-sex couples
providing a visual format to a physical passion
such as a new emerging young artist from
Sweden, Cajsa von Zeipel who works with poly
plastic materials and body casting to form her
female - androgynous gender figures in active
erotic poses. Jordan Mejias a young gay artist
who has gained recognition in the past 2 years
with his watercolor paintings of nude males
and male couples in romantic sexual situations
brings a new creative visualization to gay love.
marc boy with lamb
robert indiana love
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