QCA Art: The Art of Michael Breyette

Sexy and talented artist, Michael Breyette grew up in rural upstate NY, a region, he says, that can sometimes parallel the stereotype of the red-neck South. He early work focused escapist sci-fi and fantasy scenes. Though he's grown up you can still see a fantastic element in his work, whether it's the big-dicked devils, butterfly boy, or stud-turned-wolfman, or his more intimate portraits of men deep in thought. His works have an anticipatory nature—the men rarely participate in full-on fucking; they're usually in the moment just before or after. It imbrues his work with an erotic tension that's keeping us quite erect.

He certainly gets his aesthetic from porn, yet he's said that his work responds to his perceptions as a gay man living in America:

The part sex plays in my artwork has to do with my feelings that sexuality especially gay sexuality is repressed by mainstream society. Also in artwork, a simple nude female is more easily accepted by the general public that a nude male...a nude male is going to cause more controversy and is more likely to be labeled pornographic but I think my work is more about the beauty of men, their lives and their loves and that we're just like everyone else. It's only the sex that makes us 'different'.

Michael's advice to young artists is to "do something you enjoy. You may not know what it is yet, you might not know until you are 30 or 40, but when you do, go for it no matter what you are doing or where you are at, at the time." We wanted to post more of his awesome paintings here for your enjoyment, but you should really just check out his website and enjoy the rest of his incredibly hot paintings for yourself. You can even order his prints, books, and commissioned works through the site.

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Via Manhunt Daily