''TRANS'' Painting

"TRANS" UNIQUE WORK OF ART! Under the rule of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, the comunity (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Trans a Bisexuals community only lost their lives because they were different. Work of art dedicated to TRANSGENDER people. ART AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA " STOP HOMOPH ART " The Movement was founded in 2003, Italy by Raffaele Ciotola. The artist Raffaele Ciotola embraces with great solidarity the transgender condition and manifests it by creating a work of art. For this painting he chooses Vladimir Luxuria to immortalize her for the tenacity and courage that she has always shown in fighting on the front line for the rights of the community ''LGBT''. Why Vladimir on the cross? The cross represents all the discriminations that transgender people have had to suffer unjustly and that unfortunately still live today because of the homophobia generated by ignorance. The painter R.Ciotola represents this character who smiles; why does she smile? It is not a provocation, but a clear message to the whole LGBT community to walk head-on with a smile on their lips without ever abandoning this battlefield to which life unfortunately still subjects them today. She smiles to spur on the new generations and to instill in them the same determination that she has always shown us. A clear message of love that incites us to support our cross with strength and courage. Eachone of us support one cross, the important thing is never losing our freedom. "STOP HOMOPH ART" The Movement was founded in 2003, Italy by Raffaele Ciotola. The scope of the movement is to discourage racist attitudes and homophobic behaviour that arise when a glbt homosexual work of art is exhibited to the public. The idea is to spread cultural awareness and respect in the struggle against homophobia. Mr. Ciotola firmly believes that painting, like music, is a direct and universal Language sending messages and spreading ideas with even more immediacy than literature. In fact, his works express the cultural structures involving the male and female, of love between men,love between women, transgender experiences,discrimination,violence and refusal. "The Artist creates freely in the struggle against prejudice and ignorance. Through his creativity he attacks the very source of homophobic attitudes and bravely upholds a revolution in new cultural standards of behaviour. It is both necessary and urgent to achieve this goal, to be trusting and win trust,where difference actually makes the difference and is enrichening;where the beholder of the work of art may find room for his emotions. This movement arises from the need to spread a message coming from the heart, but that is too often filtered by society in terms of religion or politics, and therefore often distorted and hypocritical. This deprives the person of their dignity,sense of freedom and respect as an individual. The most important work of Raffaele Ciotola is the "Madonna of the Homosexuals", painted between 2003 and 2007 and dedicated to the many thousands of homosexual victims murdered by the nazis. The artist attempts to express in this oil painting the immense grief experienced in his very soul by creating a work of art of great ethical and moral value thus creating the very manifesto of "Stop Homoph Art". The iconic impact is unusual and differs from the traditional Virgin and Child; the language is straightforward and nonconformist. In the the painter's words: "I chose Maria as an historical and religious figure, because she alone can represent a work of art meant to communicate a genuine feeling of love and goodness. The brushstrokes are at times few and fragmented in the soft folds of the dress of the female figure,and then more precise and detailed in the outline of her face and in the decorative and symbolic elements. Colour is used in different shades and contrast with the cold and warm tonalities and the complementary colours of the blue and orange cloak. The light is soft coming from the very face of the Madonna as if she were radiating a cosmic energy embracing humanity itself. The composition rests on a central axis where the Holy Child with the globe in its hand, rests on the clasped hands of the Virgin Mary. The symbols grasped in the other hand by the holy child depict the symbols of the homosexual world. The delicate chiaroscuro enhances further the vertical effect. More symbols and decorations are present on the frame itself, together with the title, and from right to left of the virgin's halo, are the Alfa and Omega which symbolize God and Eternity, the Beginning and the End. The pink triangle was sewn on the uniforms of the gay victims by the Nazis according para §175 StGB Law inhibiting homosexual behaviour and represents the movement that the artist Raffaele Ciotola has created, inviting all to support it, in the name not only of humanity but of human rights. Art can play a fundamental role in the struggle against prejudice and specifically, homophobia. Art can teach to tolerate homosexuality and in the words of Picasso : In the face of human tragedies, Picasso once said "Artists cannot and must not be indifferent". Prof.ssa Michela Marconi

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.8 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 D in

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