That Phoenician beard: Arthur Gillet, care of Marco Cerrone, Loverboy Magazine, John Maybury, et al

Gillet is a French artist of Georgian descent.  His work explores what is considered real in the modern world of multimedia and how this different reality commodifies the body.

Ramón 37

Thoroughly modern Milton

Taut gorgeousness

Glenn Bishop

Sylvia Sleigh & her muse Paul Rosano

 

Here is the artist herself.  She kept coming back to Rosano time and again as a source of inspiration.  Her philosophy was to present men in the Neoclassic or Romantic tradition that men had put women in, putting the question of gender objectification on it's head, so to speak.  It was her enduring mark as a modern artist.