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Apr 15, 2020 · 6 Tom of Finland Sketches and Collages That You Haven't Seen Before. People use the term iconic a lot but there are a few figures who truly embody it. Tom of Finland, the artist born...
Oct 10, 2019 · Within the comics, social and cultural issues of the time were addressed; terrorism and airplane hijacking were tackled alongside the subject of sexual freedom between races. “My aim is not to create an ideal but to draw beautiful men who love each other and are proud of it” – Tom of Finland.
Tom of Finland, a moniker of Touko Laaksonen, was a Finnish illustrator best known for his distinctively stylized homoerotic drawings. An influential aesthetic force in late 20th-century gay culture, his illustrations were rendered in grayscale graphite and often featured uniformed men with exaggerated musculature and genitalia either ...
May 22, 2024 · Tom of Finland, the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic illustrations of hypermasculine men, died in 1991. But his legacy lives on — through his art, which adorns queer establishments...
Jan 18, 2023 · Tom of Finland took centuries of homoerotic art—from Greek warriors cruising each other across ancient wine vessels through Michelango’s muscle studies, George Platt Lynes’s graphic early-20th-century photographs of male bodies in shadows to Physique Pictorial’s porn-as-wellness-tutorials—as tools. Also in his box?
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture.
Tom of Finland, perhaps the most iconic creator of erotic gay art, understood his role as a liberator. His images of men unleashing their deepest fantasies have provided an outlet for self-identification and established a visual iconography of eroticism.
