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Synopsis

Young artist Paul P. has become internationally known for his haunting paintings and drawings of the faces and figures of young men, all sourced from gay magazines from the '70s. The artist mines his huge archive of porn and re-imagines these nude young men with the aesthetic vocabulary of late nineteenth-century art.

Nonchaloir, the artist's first monograph, collects over 100 of these stunning portraits in a small, intimate volume. P.'s subjects and their nude poses, at times languishing, wistful, or weary, are imbued with references to famed painters James McNeil, Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Even the title itself is referential: Nonchaloir is a defunct French word suggesting repose and resignation, and is found in works by Mallarmé and Baudelaire.

Keywords

Art & Artist, Book, Erotica: Gay Male, Gay Male, Gay/Lesbian, GLBT Creator / Performer / Writer, Nudity

Genres

Books, Photography/Art

Customer Reviews

Repose and resignation

Grady Harp wrote on 09/15/2010:

Paul P. is an artist about whom we know very little. He was born in Canada in 1977 and lives in France and currently is well represented in some of the top galleries both in the US and in Europe. His election to near name anonymity is a mystery. Currently his paintings are more landscape in nature, but he never avoids the figure.

NONCHALOIR is a very beautifully designed and produced monograph of a certain excursion into figurative art Paul P. produced prior to the publication of this monograph is 2007. The subject matter is unique: Paul P. gathered magazines from the pre-AIDS era and has reproduced these 'models' in a varying of techniques - drawings, pastels, gouaches, and watercolors on paper as well as oils on canvas - and has elected to depict young lads in repose who seem to embody a prescience of the coming plague. The paintings/drawings vary greatly in facility with the different media but the feeling of these images is one of sadness and melancholy. But in addition to the emotional response of viewing these figures, Paul P. seems to being paying homage to the works of the American Romantics, and in this aspect the monograph grows in importance. It is time for another monograph of his work to see how his career has progressed.

Grady Harp