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David Kawena: The Sexuality of the Asexual Disney Heroes
I found this artist on DevianArt thank to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madam_minnie. David Kawena had a very original idea: to use as models for his art the characters of Disney movies.
In a series of portraits he reinvented (or discovered), with a bit more of realism than the original characters, the hidden sensuality of those heroes who steal hearts of the princesses in fairy tales.
Peter Pan
Hercules
Prince Naveen
Narnian Kings
Prince Edward
Tarzan
Will Turner
John Henry
Sitka
Milo J. Thatch
John Smith
Prince Phillip
David Kawena is a from Israel and he was asked what it means to be a gay artist there:
"Actually being (a) gay artist, or straight artists who deals with ‘gay’ issues is pretty much a cool thing to be in Israel! Israel is very open minded and very narrow minded too - it's (a) mix of a place. We have a lot openly gay artists here, most of them are on prime time television - actors, fashion designers - and many singers who are openly gay are at the top of the national charts all the time. I do most of my work outside of Israel, but that's a different subject. I could very well be categorized as a straight artist who dose gay
work, or vise versa... You know?!”
Kawena’s work is primarily digital media.
http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/
More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art
madam_minnie. David Kawena had a very original idea: to use as models for his art the characters of Disney movies. In a series of portraits he reinvented (or discovered), with a bit more of realism than the original characters, the hidden sensuality of those heroes who steal hearts of the princesses in fairy tales.
Peter Pan
Hercules
Prince Naveen
Narnian Kings
Prince Edward
Tarzan
Will Turner
John Henry
Sitka
Milo J. Thatch
John Smith
Prince Phillip
David Kawena is a from Israel and he was asked what it means to be a gay artist there:
"Actually being (a) gay artist, or straight artists who deals with ‘gay’ issues is pretty much a cool thing to be in Israel! Israel is very open minded and very narrow minded too - it's (a) mix of a place. We have a lot openly gay artists here, most of them are on prime time television - actors, fashion designers - and many singers who are openly gay are at the top of the national charts all the time. I do most of my work outside of Israel, but that's a different subject. I could very well be categorized as a straight artist who dose gay
work, or vise versa... You know?!”
Kawena’s work is primarily digital media.
http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/
More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art
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I'll have to go and look up the story (not of the film, but the real life one). It sounds very interesting and just about my kind of era too :) Thank you!
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Of course no ;-) In the Disney movie they are happily leaving for England, if I remember well. Elisa