Thanks to Unapologetically Fat for the appreciative remarks in a recent post on men in fat acceptance. As I (Stef, the writer of men_in_full) am not a man, I can't speak *for* fat men, but I can speak *about* them. Unapologetically Fat said:

[Men_in_full] is low-drama, high-impact. Their photographs, paintings, postcards, cartoons, statuary, etc. celebrate the physical beauty of large men in art and culture. The portrayals are almost exclusively positive; portraying large men as powerful, strong, beautiful, glad, and desirable. For those who've missed the last ten years or so, men are quickly arriving at pressure to obtain impossible physicalities right there along with women. These pictures may be more subversive than you think, and therefore more valuable.

"Low-drama, high-impact" is about the nicest thing one could say about this little gallery. And thanks so much to oakmouse for tipping me off; I've not had a lot of computer time recently and have fallen behind on Fatosphere blog reading, so I missed this. Now, on to the art...

Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was an early German expressionist painter whose work appears far more "modern" than you would expect for the latter half of the 19th century. I'd heard of him, mainly because when you used to get off the elevator on the second floor of the St. Louis Art Museum, you would be greeted by the painting my children when small called "the boobie lady." I haven't been up to the second floor (which houses the "modern," i.e. 20th century art) recently, preferring the more distant past, so I'm not sure if Nana still greets visitors with such enthusiasm. Corinth did numerous self-portraits, one of which appears below, and which appeals to me with its soft, relaxed and casual air.



"Selbstportrait"


I'm always interested in representations of fat Bacchus, so with glee I present to you this one.




"Heimkehrende Bacchanten"