Miguel Rosas: “There’s still a belief the male nude is obscene.”

Let’s know something else about the Peruvian plastic artist & painter who encourages us to undress  for making art.

 

What about “the man’s naked body is beautiful” is not something new –we show it here among other stuff. But what about a Peruvian plastic artists has dared to print and show it in public – that’s called being gutsy, indeed.

 

We’re not talking about boys in nuts taken out from his imagination. Miguel Rosas (Lima, Peru, January 19, 1992) draws and paints males who who get naked before him at his workshop, so he goes printing them feature by feature, muscle by muscle, inch by inch, even the penis or the testicles.

 

Miguel Rosas Drew since a child but he had to submit to the exigency for studying a career paying his bills. He chose economy. But an accident that left him disabled to walk for some months focused him on the drawing and painting – it helped him as a therapy.

 

Art by Miguel Rosas. Continue reading for more information.

 

The issue is Miguel drew what everybody draws. You know, landscapes, traditions, stuff anyway. Then, he broke the frontier once upon a day and traced naked boys. He didn’t only traced them – he made they fully undress for making them immortal.  He didn’t make them to undress – he exposed them whoever wishing to see them.

 

This Lima-native plastic artists & painter granted us worthy minutes of his time for talking something else about his art and what is inside the creative process.

 

How did you get to hold strong on your decision to draw and paint male bodies?

It was something I wanted to experience of art in the beginning. I already had made other topics in painting but I wanted to paint male nude, then I continued because of the fascination I have when I make my works.  It’s a experience I enjoy by drawing the lines, adding the color, getting to print the male beauty.

 

Were you afraid of it, anytime?

Yes, I was. In the beginning, I thought if I painted male bodies, and nudes overall, I couldn’t post due I could break out reactions against because it’s most common in art to see the female nude. But I was overcoming these fears.

 

How did you overcome them?

In the process to make the paintings and meeting the models who performed, I was realizing what I made was such as wonderful or more, like the rest of the art – I should continue to make it.

 

Art by Miguel Rosas. Continue reading for more information.

 

How would you rate that first session with your first model posing nude?

It was good. It was a friend of mine who posed for that occasion – I felt very comfortable. I liked much the result too, I could learn much from that first experience.

 

Was it easy to propose the nude to your friend?

It wasn’t much. He already had posed for me but dressed. I had to convince him to pose nude for making some drawings and a painting. The trust he had to me was what he motivated in the end.

 

Art by Miguel Rosas. Continue reading for more information.

 

In your experience, does the Peruvian male get nude easily for being printed in a drawing or a painting?

No, he doesn’t. Many prefer to pose with some clothes fearing to show their bulge to other folk. Also, there’s still a belief the male nude is obscene as to be represented in art.

 

Why isn’t obscene to print a male nude?

Because the art is free and the male nude is part of Nature. The idea it’s obscene, or not, depends more on the culture of the people in a determined part of the world.

 

But it persists the fear to show without clothes, especially the penis, the testicles, or the buttocks, doesn’t it?

Yes, it does. There’s a conservative culture of modesty to show the bulge.

 

Peruvian Pre-Hispanic cultures represented hard penis. Even, there’s an actual controversy about pottery seeming a hard penis. In your judge, is art to show a hard-on?

Sure. The art shows every stage of people’s life. If it’s possible to represent an action like the work, eating, sleeping, why not the sex or a hard-on too?

 

So, why so much scandal when a boy decides to pose showing his hard penis, or ejaculating inclusive?

Because aside the artists, the rest of people don’t have that artistic background  because they don’t have much contact to the art. Other reason is because this kind of art is not usual, this is just exposing to the public.

 

And we, the men, art pieces by definition, aren’t we?

Of course. We are an art piece of the Creation.

 

Miguel Rosas gave us some of his pieces those the social media have banned, what you can see them all here without fear we disappear from the cyberspace.

 

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