テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「This #NationalComingOutDay, we've invited Tate Guides to take a look at artworks through a queer lens. Next up is Raymond responding to Keith Vaughan's Leaping Figure 1951, which is currently on free display at Tate Britain. 💙 'This oil painting was painted by British artist Keith Vaughan in 1951, when he was 39. He was gay, and found it difficult to openly be who he was in his lifetime. The painting shows a male nude in motion, probably a dancer in performance or practicing at the barre. Vaughan loved watching dance in the theatre. In ‘Leaping Figure’, the left leg is about to kick high and almost ‘leap’ out of the canvas. In contrast to this movement, the man’s hands and arms are spread out to give the figure some stability, and to fill the canvas from side to side. Vaughan often painted nude men. In some pictures – especially private sketches - all body parts are on show. But in others, for exhibition, like ‘Leaping Figure’, the figures are abstracted. The muscles and limbs play second fiddle to the sinuous shapes and the colours. Some say that Vaughan was cautious in his public art for fear of censure. But it could be that Vaughan was simply painting in the abstract art style of the 1950s, when colours and shapes rather than narratives began to dominate.'」10月11日 22時49分