
In art school, his naked-man fantasias were dismissed as frivolous — even as he continued to win scholarship after scholarship.
“I took delight in horrifying all the tutors with naked bodies and massive dicks,” says British artist Matthew Stradling. “The images had filtered into my work from porno magazines. The tutors were all serious academics. Their concerns were for the very dry, almost scientific aspects of art, which I really had no time for. I wanted to see SENSUALITY and I wanted to see it BIG! It was my coming out as an artist.” (more…)




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