This site is dedicated to projections of boydom by means of art throughout many periods of art history, with occasional interpretation.
These images (paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs) deal with illusions and ideals which are projected into childhood and youth, especially into boydom where Elysium is seen so often by so many.
They deal with the portrait of the real boy as well, through all styles and times - searching to capture an essence of boydom which is often lost. Lost in art as well as in real life ...
Some boys are searching all the time.
Due to the enormous amount of material, the displayed images can only represent a fraction of the nature of the subject. Additional uploads are in progress. Furthermore, the galleries have been enlarged recently - so that you will find something new in every single gallery. The abbreviation w.d. stands for "without date".
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Amongst
those who devoted some part of their creativity
to boydom in art at one time in their life (be it for longer or just for a short special moment), the following artists are represented here: Sofonisba
Anguissola
Patrick Angus Carolina
Raquel Antich
Andrea d'Assisi called l'Ingegno Dirck van Baburen Giovanni Baglione Carl Joseph Begas Gyula Benczúr John Berger Roland Berger Norbert Bisky William Blake Abraham Bloemart Arnold Böcklin Pier Giacomo Alari Bonaccolsi detto L'Antico Louis-Léopold Boilly Christian Boltanski Pierre Bonnard Paris Bordone Sandro Botticelli Jan Breughel the Older Jean Broc Bronzino Eberhard Brucks Michelangelo Buonarroti Antonio Canova Giovanni Battista Caracciolo Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio Etienne Carjat Giovanni Francesco Caroto Lodovico Carraci Rosalba Carriera Benvenuto Cellini Taner Ceylan Paul Cézanne Antoine-Denis Chaudet Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Jean Cocteau Correggio Thomas Couture Lucas Cranach the Older D'Aubry-Lecomte Salvador Dali Joseph Danhauser Ernest Delahaye Otto Dix Robert Doisneau Donatello Kees van Dongen Albrecht Dürer Götz Drope Alfred Milton Duca John Duncan André Durand Anthonys van Dyck Thomas Eakins El Greco Elisar von Kupffer Magnus Enckell Ruth Erdt Merike Estna Francois-Xavier Fabre Alexandre Falguiére Conrad Felixmüller Jean-Louis Forain Melozzo da Forli Baldassare Franceschini Lucian Freud Florian Gaida Thomas Gainsborough Paul Gauguin Giorgione A.E. Girodet de Roucy Trioson Oszkár Glatz Marie Eléonore Godefroid Vincent van Gogh Anthony Goicolea Nan Goldin Jean-Paul Goude Anton Graff Jean-Baptiste Greuze Hans Grundig David M. Gyscek Christian Hahn Frans Hals Charles Webster Hawthorne Jitka Hanzlová Johann Ernst Heinzius Adolf Hildebrand David Hockney James Clark Hook Karl Hubbuch Roland Huber Samuel Hoffmann Theodor Hosemann Hans Henny Jahnn Louise Janin Christian Albrecht Jensen Li Ji-Kai Pierre Joubert Juju's Delivery Frida Kahlo Leopold von Kalckreuth Angelika Kauffmann Fernand Khnopff O.A. Kiprenski Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Jochen Klein Pierre Klossowski Franz Krüger Peter Martin Lampel Thomas Lawrence Eustache Le Sueur Gian Antonio Lazzari Frederic Leighton Wilhelm Leibl Franz von Lenbach Szilágyl Lenke Max Liebermann Wladimir Lindenberg Filippino Lippi Herbert List Otto Lohmüller Federico Garcia Lorca Madaio Jewgenia Magaril Édouard Manet Hans von Marees Roberto Marquez Franz Masereel Will McBride Conger Metcalf Otto Meyer-Amden Adolph von Menzel Anna Lea Merritt Georg Minne Juan Carreño de Miranda Ron Mueck Reinhardt Müller Edvard Munch Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Otto Nagel Zhao Neng-Zhi Emil Nolde Jacob van Oost the Older Julian Opie Alexej Pachomow Giovanni Francesco Maria Mazzola called Parmigiano Pier Paolo Pasolini Moritz Pathé Kouzma Petrov-Vodkine Elizabeth Peyton Giambattista Piazetta Pablo Picasso Pierre & Gilles Antonio del Pollaiuolo Praxiteles Jan Preisler Bernhard Prinz Raffael Ferdinand von Rayski Nicolas Régnier Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Guido Reni Auguste Renoir Gustav Richter Ulrike Rimmele Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury Auguste Rodin Gian Cristoforo Romano Peter Paul Rubens Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Chéri Samba Andrea del Sarto Jan Saudek Johann Gottfried Schadow Egon Schiele Oskar Schlemmer Sascha Alexander Schneider Collier Schorr Johann Georg Schreiner Georg Schrimpf Jan van Scorel Alexandre Seon Ludovike Simanowiz Hugo Simberg Renée Sintenis Simeon Solomon Joaquín Sorolla Y Bastida Patti Smith Pia Stadtbäumer Richard Steen Paul Strand Annelies Strba Paul Strecker Michael Sweerts Tobias Täschner Wladimir Tatlin Hans Thoma Berthel Thorvaldsen Paul Thumann Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Arthur Tress Henry Scott Tuke Urbaniak Tiziano Vecellio Diego de Silva Y Velazquez Elisabeth Vignée-Lebrun Paul Verlaine Leonardo da Vinci Hans Volkert Artur Volkmann Jeff Wall Henry Wallis Ricco-Erich Wassmer John William Waterhouse Jean-Antoine Watteau F.W. Weidemann Emil Wolff Bernd Zimmer Francisco de Zurbarán plus
several unknown or anonymous artists.
This selection includes the occasional odd
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a small note for people who might have grown up too much:
sometimes in dreams and scarcely in life,
an utter boyishness is evoked in a grown-up,
as a moment of jumping or dancing or laughing
or singing or staring silently onto the reflection
of light on the water, not thinking a thing,
but not forlorn in the dark misery spiralling towards its center ...
... its recurrence connects you, the grown-up,
again to the other boy in front of you
whom you thought you could never establish a rapport again ...
the passing of time has become insignificant ...
we're always meant to be playful and light-hearted ...