Sad ephebos. Male homosexual iconography in the drawings of Federico García Lorca.

The complex world of Lorca's drawing is populated by a diverse male iconography starring clowns, pierrots, harlequins, sailors, gipsies, bandits, angels and saints. These images, of steely melancholy and marked homoeroticism, run parallel to his poetic and dramatic work; and they seek the refuge that the metaphorical world of the mask always offers them. Federico García Lorca, while exploring different avant-garde aesthetic movements, chooses the disguise as a refuge that will reveal the different sequences of his state of mind; and at the same time that he accepts his sacrifice as a homosexual, he symbolically projects it onto this carnival artifice devoid of comedy.

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José Luis Plaza Chillón is a Doctor in Art History from the University of Granada and is a specialist in the work of Federico García Lorca and his relationship with the plastic arts. He has published several books related to this topic, as well as numerous articles and collective works. He has also studied the involvement of painters in the world of costume design and theatrical scenography in avant-garde Spain and is currently investigating some aspects of contemporary art and its connection with homoeroticism. Furthermore, he is part of the research group UNES-HUM-895 "University, School and Society" of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Granada).