Bloom (2025)Oil painting
by Oleksandr Balbyshev
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Original artwork description
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About the artwork
Bloom is a celebration of queer vitality, sensuality, and growth. In this painting, two faceless male figures stand unapologetically rooted in an abstract, lush landscape. Their muscular bodies emerge from foliage like blooming flowers — strong, radiant, and unashamed.
This work is not only about beauty, but about becoming. It speaks to the experience of queer men finding space to flourish despite cultural or internalized constraints. Their facelessness suggests universality: they could be anyone, anywhere, blooming into their full selves.
The saturated colors and expressive brushstrokes mirror the intensity of this transformation — a reclamation of the body, of desire, of joy. Bloom stands within the current queer art discourse that resists erasure and insists on visibility, intimacy, and erotic presence as forms of resistance and liberation.
To bloom, as a queer person, is not merely to survive — it is to thrive, boldly and vividly.
PLEASE NOTE: The buyer will be responsible for paying international customs fees, determined by the country the artwork is being shipped to. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to making a purchase.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 100 x 120 x 2.5cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Tags:
#male figure#male nude#love#gay#queer#bloom#identity#pride#male beauty#homoerotic#queer art#lgbtq+#ay art
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Original artwork description
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE. Due to the war, russia started against my country, the international delivery can take about two to three weeks.
About the artwork
Bloom is a celebration of queer vitality, sensuality, and growth. In this painting, two faceless male figures stand unapologetically rooted in an abstract, lush landscape. Their muscular bodies emerge from foliage like blooming flowers — strong, radiant, and unashamed.
This work is not only about beauty, but about becoming. It speaks to the experience of queer men finding space to flourish despite cultural or internalized constraints. Their facelessness suggests universality: they could be anyone, anywhere, blooming into their full selves.
The saturated colors and expressive brushstrokes mirror the intensity of this transformation — a reclamation of the body, of desire, of joy. Bloom stands within the current queer art discourse that resists erasure and insists on visibility, intimacy, and erotic presence as forms of resistance and liberation.
To bloom, as a queer person, is not merely to survive — it is to thrive, boldly and vividly.
PLEASE NOTE: The buyer will be responsible for paying international customs fees, determined by the country the artwork is being shipped to. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to making a purchase.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 100 x 120 x 2.5cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Tags:
#male figure#male nude#love#gay#queer#bloom#identity#pride#male beauty#homoerotic#queer art#lgbtq+#ay art
Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
About
Oleksandr Balbyshev was born in 1985 in Ukraine, one of the biggest Soviet Republics. After graduating from The Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2012, he was... Read more