{"product_id":"stirn-an-stirn-heiligenbild-gay-love-solomon","title":"Gay Art Head to Head – Holy Picture Celebrates Gay Love – Artfully Like by Solomon","description":"\u003cp\u003eFaces like those in a sacred image – two extraordinary men, delicate and sublime, innocence in their affection for each other. These are precisely the kind of faces Solomon painted, he who had to hide his love for men – behind saints, angels, and youths who betrayed no one. Our image shows what he was never allowed to show: forehead to forehead, eyes closed, a hand on a shoulder, not grasping, just there. No kiss. Something deeper. The moment two gay men know they are meant for each other – and that nothing more needs to be proven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimeon Solomon would probably have loved to paint this picture – but he wouldn't have been allowed to. What he painted was camouflage. Those in the know understood. Victorian England did not and was reassured. Until the rude awakening came.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt eighteen, Solomon's work hung in the Royal Academy. At twenty, he belonged to the inner circle of leading painters of his time – Rossetti valued him, Wilde admired him. He was no outsider. He was right in the middle of it. Until everything ended in 1873: an arrest because he loved a man. His friends remained silent. The art world turned away. He died in 1905 in a London workhouse – forgotten, impoverished, alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHad he painted this picture, the world would have been different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe paint it for him. Without cipher. Without hiding. If this picture hangs in your home – in the living room, where guests see it, in the bedroom, where only you see it – then it shows what has always been true: that this closeness is beautiful. That it always has been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kunstwerk-bilder.shop\/blogs\/news\/simeon-solomon-genie-geaechteter-wiederentdeckter\"\u003eMore about Simeon Solomon – his life, his fall, his rediscovery →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTechnical Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable in 20x20 cm, 30x30 cm, 50x50 cm, and 60x60 cm. Ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGay Art for your home. KUNSTWERK BILDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kunstwerk Bilder","offers":[{"title":"20x20 cm","offer_id":53336383979859,"sku":"PR-solom-03","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x30 cm","offer_id":53336384012627,"sku":null,"price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x50 cm","offer_id":53336384045395,"sku":null,"price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60x60 cm","offer_id":53336384078163,"sku":null,"price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/7893\/5635\/files\/PR-solom-03_hauptbild.png?v=1774462403","url":"https:\/\/www.kunstwerk-bilder.shop\/en-eu\/products\/stirn-an-stirn-heiligenbild-gay-love-solomon","provider":"Kunstwerk Bilder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}