I Always Wanted To Play The Piano…or The Piano Player.

'Sun stripes', oil on board (2013) by Steven Cronkite, American artist.

I like to look at a beautiful male body. Therefore, I am sad that there are so little masculine sensuality and beauty in the art world. About 30 years ago, a group of feminist artists, Guerrilla Girls, decided to determine the ratio of male and female body’s presented on canvases exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It turned out that male are only 15%. And it seems that today the situation has not changed much. On online galleries where I sell my art, male body’s are about 20%.

Oleksandr Balbyshev

Nude with Artichokes (2024)

Painting, Oil on Canvas Size: 200  x 100 cm | 78.7 x 39.4 inch

"The Giants", c.1937 by Onofrio Martinelli (Italian, 1900-1966)