Tom of Finland Man And His Boot Skateboard by The Skateroom

Name: Tom of Finland Man And His Boot Skateboard by The Skateroom
Brand: Tom of Finland
Price: 165.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Condition: New

$165.00

Time-Limited Edition

Tom of Finland was exploring the use of prismacolor pencils when working on “Man and His Boot”. The artwork, originally released as a lithograph, was an experimental move away from his usual graphite and gouache. Very detailed in its technique, the piece took the artist about two weeks to complete.

Presented here as a solo skate art edition, we see a mysterious close up portrait of a man, leaning his face gently against a black cowboy boot of his companion. This contrast of nudity with heavy fabrics such as leather and metal is a common characteristic of Tom of Finland’s visual vocabulary, which conveys homosexuality through images of dominant masculinity.

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About Tom of Finland

Tom of Finland was the pseudonym of Touko Laaksonen (1920–1991), the Finnish artist whose drawings of muscular, joyful men in leather and uniforms became defining images of gay culture. Working from the 1950s onwards, he created a confident, celebratory vision of masculinity that has since been embraced by museums, fashion houses and designers around the world.

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