90s GeoFresh news from the workshop
- Detail of my infography creation INFOGRAPHY OF MALE of my first step 2009 using at least 500 male nudes in history: who said that male nudes are under represented in art? Ask me this INFOGRAPHY OF MALE (in your mailbox for free// georget_cyril@yahoo.fr)!
- 1/Welcome to Geo: the first tumblr inDecember 2011 is where I put everything: above all my paintings when they are finished, but also ideas, politics, comment… it’s a sort of diary on tumblr.
Le premier tumblr en décembre 2011, c’est là où j’essaie toutes sortes de choses: d’abord mes peintures quand elles sont finies, mais aussi des idées, des images nouvelles, de la politique, des commentaires… une sorte de journal en quelque sorte
- 2/MES PEINTURES: here I try to put abolutly each and every of my paintings from the begining in 2009// J’essaie de regrouper ici toutes mes peintures.
- 3/FREEDOM or Free Men: is my new theme I follow till 15 of March 2012. C’est le nouveau thème que je peins jusqu’au 15 mars 2012.//With the fear of lack of freedom around me is born in mid-january 2012 the historical evidence that Freedom and a free mind is the key to fight against the government dangerous strategy in the country… I decided then to start to paint for this cause.//Avec la crainte qu’entraîne le manque de liberté autour de moi, mi-janvier 2012 est née l’évidence historique que la Liberté et l‘“esprit de liberté est la solution pour combattre la stratégie dangereuse du pays… J’ai alors décidé de commencer à peindre pour cette cause.
- 4/BUDAPEST: tout sur la ville où je vis… All about the city I live in.//Here I try to mix the everyday image of Budapest I see every week with historical, uncommon and political view of Budapest in order to create a total visit of my beloved city for the best and the worst…//J’essaie ici de donner une image quotidienne de Budapest en mélangeant la ville que je fréquente chaque semaine avec la Budapest historique, la Budapest peu connue des touristes et celle de la politique mouvementée actuelle; c’est sensé résulter à un tour globale de ma ville adorée, pour le meilleur et pour le pire…
- 5/PAYSAGES est là où je mets mes arrière-plans pour mes peintures. It is all about the background of my paintings…
- 6/ART ou Mon monde des arts: je créé une sorte d’encyclopédie de l’art que j’aime. The Art I fancy.
- 7/SENSUALITY: presents all the nude models which can be painted. Toutes sortes de photos sensuelles que je pourrais peindre…
- 8/HOT: pour l’instant je l’ai appelé “Vive la crise et le sexe!” mais c’est très sarcastique. Déjanté sur les problème et le porno, les images qui sont presque sensuelles mais qui en font trop ou sont trop crues… Parfois un bon défouloir pour mes peintures… // Funny, porn, excentric: a good rantroom for my paintings sometimes…
- 9/MODELS is my true first tumblr trying in 2010 and I follow the idea to go on a Models ABC on tumblr here// Ce fut mon tout premier essai sur tumblr et c’est devenu la suite du Dico des Modèles
- 10/VISAGES: sometimes I need a face for my paintings… Parfois j’ai besoin d’un visage dans mes peinttures…
- 11/ANIMAL DIARY: I love Nature and I prove it here and it is really funny. For the moment I did not paint a lot from this theme but it can come one day…/// J’adore la nature et je le prouve ici avec ce tumblr déjanté. Pour l’instant ce thème n’a pas donné beaucoup de peintures mais ça pourrait venir…
- 12/Artist ABC enlights and repertories artists who are important for me. Every 3 to 5 days;/ c’est ici que je fais le point sur les artistes connus ou inconnus qui m’influencent aujourd’hui…
- 13/Geo Models . It is already done since I don’t add too much pictures of models now, but fish from the thousands of photos of the dictionary to paint… sometime each 4 to 7 days presents models, I introduce Models life… /Des milliers de photos qui me servent de modèles… des vies racontées des personnes qui me servent de modèles pour mes peintures, par ordrealphabétique des prénoms!
- 14/Geo Atelier 2011 every one or three days shows the photos I take during the process. It’s where I put the collages too. / Entrez dans mon atelier et découvrez les secrets de ma peinture…
- 15/Geo Day 2011 shows the paintings which are neither too soft, neither too hot! C’est ici que je montre mes dernières toiles quand elles sont ni trop érotiques ni trop “soft”…
Some are still going on WordPress in 2012: with the following of 23/Geo Atelier 2012 and 24/Geo Day in 2012
MY MOST BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK ///Mes plus belles peintures…
- 17/MY STATUES
- shows statues if I create more…. Mes statues…
- 18/GREEK GEO
- comes back in Antic Times… Retour sur la Grèce Antique…
- 19/GEO’S OIL: My oil paintings… mes peintures à l’huile…
- 20/GEO CUBIST
- everything which is un-common inspired or not by Cubism! Tout ce que je peins et qui sort de l’ordinaire… par hasard inspiré ou non par le cubisme
- 21/GEO HOT
- : frankly porn! peintures vraiment “porno”… de l’art ou du cochon?
- 22/GEO H2O Everything about water… Le dernier né des sites WordPress : la prédominance de l’eau…
- 26/ Mes peintures sur internet: mes peintures commencent à émerger sur le net. Je fais des copies écran et les mets pour garder une mémoire de ce temps de passage… / My paintings on internet, I copy the screen to keep a track of their quick appearance on the net…
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- Geo Atelier 2011: GEO’S ATELIER TILL SEPTEMBER 2011
- Geo Day 2011: PAINTINGS UNTILL AUGUST 2011 about the first 6 months of 2011 / les 6 premiers mois de ma peintures cette année 2011…)
4th of March 2011 Nowdays I am painting in a full rythme since winter seems like every year never ending, since New York didn’t work and I am still awaiting my loaned paintings to be sent back and pay for it (everything was on my charge), since spring will come soon and I will feel the charming Budapest and since it will soon be impossible to stay like today at home almost 24 hours a day till the next canicula… In my overwhelming production, this is the time to learn from the others: I am understanding the paintings of my favorite painters in tributes I do for them. But since some are like copy of my beloved painters, I will be aware how I will sell them or not… Ce mois-ci je peins beaucoup car l’hiver est loin d’être fini… car New York n’a rien donné d’intéressant pour ma peinture et qu’on ne daigne même pas me renvoyer les peintures que j’ai généreusement prêtées là-bas (même si je paie le transport du retour) et parce que le printemps va bientôt arriver et que je vais encore une fois être émerveillé par Budapest et qu’il va être impossible de rester au calme pour peindre comme aujourd’hui jusqu’à la prochaine canicule… Dans ma riche production de peintures, je prends le temps de me pencher sur le travail des autres peintres: j’essaie de comprendre — en tout bien tout honneur — mes peintres favoris. Mais comme j’ai presque copier certains d’entre eux, je vais faire attention à la façon de les livrer aux gens que ça intéresse pour ne pas leur porter préjudice. 15th of November 2010 NEWS FROM THE WORKSHOP: 
Futur show in New York City Manhattan Times Square from november the 18 (opening) to december 30.
Future exposition à Manhattan Times Square du 18 novembre au 30 december 2010.
Cyril Georget’s presentation: “A painting for breakfast When I finally began to paint these pictures – one year and half ago – I found the opportunity to perform something that I always had in the deep side of my personality… Since I was a teenager, I wanted to thank this art and in particular the paintings and photos which in the 80’s, in France, had the courage to show me some gay part of the life, but there were such a few… Thanks to these few pictures of Mapplethorpe, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Tom of Finland etc. my hidden feelings about men — which were taken with precaution far from my everyday teenager life by the homophobic schools and media — found a fragile echo of my deepest I… It is the time for me to develop this occasion I had to feel myself good finally and since 2008, I began on the steps of Andy Warhol a following of his Factory in order to produce a “popular” male nude erotic art. At this time I created One painting every three days (my website name is still “3days 1paint” today.) In may 2010 with the help of the ebayers, I succeed to paint at least one painting a day: this daily painting once produced is put fast on my website then on ebay on internet . To paint it takes one to 5 or 6 hours maximum. To place it and manage it on the internet two or three hours a day. Nowadays homoerotic photo are numerous on internet. In one hand, these pictures are ephemeral. Against this fact, I oppose the the gay painting which is done to last a lot of time. Dürer the very first oil painter of the XVth century is still present in museum and private collections. On the other hand, these photos on internet are so numerous that it is really easy for me to choose one of them in a few second as a model. Then I give my interpretation of the photographic reality of the model. Everyday it’s the first thing I do in the morning with my breakfast!” Cyril Georget, Budapest 1st of september Thom Simmonds Gallery’ presentation: Times Square Arts Center will mark the opening of the Thom Simmonds Gallery (300 W. 43rd St., 347-234-0468) with DO NOT BE AFRAID – Art and Male Sexuality 1977-2010, running Nov. 18-Dec. 30, 2010. This group exhibition features work by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Greg Gorman, Thom Simmonds, and Karim Zandieh. There will also be new works by Cyril Georget, Argilano, and Kaola Oty. The show features works by ANDY WARHOL (SEX PARTS); ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (X PORTFOLIO); GREG GORMAN (images from Just Between Us); and photo and mixed media collaborations between THOM SIMMONDS and KARIM ZANDIEH. New work features artists from around the world: CYRIL GEORGET (Hungary); ARGILANO (England); KAOLA OTY (Romania); and ERIK HILS (France). From Thom Simmonds: “I began collecting photography, which I believed was a hugely underappreciated art, in 1988. Robert Mapplethorpe’s work galvanized me: it was impeccably executed, provocative, brilliant and fearless. When the inclusion of Mapplethorpe’s X PORTFOLIO at the Corcoran Gallery show in 1989 created the furor that led to the re-examination of the NEA, he became my hero. I view those photographs as historical: they were taken in 1977-78 and several depict what – by 1989 – became known as “unsafe sex”. The fearlessness that characterized Robert’s work was obscured, if not obliterated, by AIDS. Realistic and graphic male sexuality became taboo in the mainstream: people WERE afraid. The unabashed sexual freedom Robert’s lens captured became synonymous with death. Robert’s exuberant realism and celebration of male sexuality was replaced with male physical – and largely non-sexual – perfection in the mainstream. For many people, their first and only encounter with explicit gay sexuality was via Mapplethorpe. That needs to change. I am certain Robert never wanted his work to be viewed as a either a remnant of the-freedom-all-gay-men-dream-of or the only artist whose in-your-face sexuality was worthy of being in a museum or anyone’s living room. What shocks me about Andy Warhol’s SEX PARTS is that he was ashamed of them! Arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century, Warhol – compared to Mapplethorpe – flirted with gay sexuality. It is difficult for me to imagine or believe that Andy was afraid of anything in spite of all that has been written or said about him to support that hypothesis. When I first saw the SEX PARTS at an auction in 2007, I was stunned that I never saw or heard about them before. Warhol’s unparalleled ability to create art for mass consumption and blur the line between what was banal and provocative could have advanced gay art even more than it had. If only he had not been afraid. In 1993 I collaborated with Karim Zandieh on a series of photographs because I was angry. AIDS had frightened and decimated the gay community and was killing some of my favorite people. Depictions of graphic male sexuality were politically incorrect – even passé’. Fueled by AIDS, I felt the world was saying “See what happens when you do things like that”. Although people were still titillated and attracted to the imagery, you would no longer see it in an art gallery or museum. You could find it at “adult establishments”. Art becoming pornography: restricted, underground, sometimes illegal. I watched the New York City I adored and its vibrant inhabitants “change”. Freedom and pride were being suppressed by fear and censorship. I wanted to chronicle my observations that homophobia was thriving and our sexual freedom was being seriously challenged. Karim Zandieh (and a very unusual piece of driftwood that I found on Fire Island) helped me find my voice. Even people who were “used to me” and my anti-censorship mindset felt I went “too far”. What a compliment! January 2010: The whole world is afraid. I am afraid to be afraid because I believe fear = paralysis. There is too much “work” to do. For me that means finding the light and energy that inspired Andy, Robert and every creative, fearless endeavor. I believe that “light” is often concealed in the darkest places so I started looking for evidence and proof of its existence in (for me) unfamiliar territory. Countless artists and creative people visit or inhabit the TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTER where my gallery is opening. And everyone knows someone who is creative and whose work is accessible in the next studio or across the Atlantic via the internet. The artists who created the new work for this show – CYRIL GEORGET, ARGILANO, KAOLA OTY – each has his/her own story to tell about fear, repression and censorship. Perhaps they use pseudonyms because they are afraid they will be exposed, arrested or censored and consequently unable to exhibit any of their work because of its graphic content. They have generously shared their work and allowed my advice – DO NOT BE AFRAID – to inspire them. CYRIL GEORGET’S paintings are vibrant and sexually charged. He has a unique ability to imbue his subject matter – no matter how explicit it is – with a sense of innocence, humor and ecstasy that eliminates fear from the eye of the beholder. ARGILANO’S drawings and paintings are strong, sensuous and sanguine. His style shifts from contemporary to classical seamlessly and with authority. KAOLA OTY’S drawings are abstract and complex. Her work enables the viewer to observe and feel the myriad physical sensations and mental processes her subjects are experiencing. Here again, the artist is able to shift styles from realistic to abstract with the same impact. ERIK HILS drawings and paintings are soft, tactile and dreamy. Erik’s work takes the viewer into his world of beautiful, languid sexuality and leaves us always wanting more. This show is dedicated to my aunt, Dawn Dilks, who taught me many things; most importantly, DO NOT BE AFRAID.” THOM SIMMONDS October 30, 2010 16th of august 2010: I am going to paint more erotic stuff and make a XXX page on this blog to show all my hot work! 12 of June: Birth of Birdy-Angel. After the Lagune Boy, The Curtain Boy, Tha Man at tha Window, I created Birdy-Angel which foczalize all my inspiration about the gorgeous work of the ornitholog Audubon. Birdy Angel will have long life… Born by the canicula, it seems that it his the cure of the heat: I really feel good painting him with the birds. refreshing. Here in Budapest the weather is already 30 degreee. With the former long winter with 8 degrees in the kitchen and the bathroom, I almost forgot the canicula. Now it’s coming. Next week will be rain again, but it will be without a doubt the last “fresh” week of the spring ,and then the summer with up to 40 degrees, 42 some days perhaps! I plan to go to the forest these days of canicula. One hour of trip. I already found a wooden observatory in the trees, like a Birdy-Angel…
