The nude model sketch session: artistic production, creativity and social markers of difference

This article presents the ethnography of a nude model sketch session with two male artists in their fifties, assertive of their homosexuality. They both belong to a network of upper class gay men and women in the city of São Paulo. This event, taken as characteristic of the universe of upper class gay men, prompts reflections on the relationship between artistic representation and social markers of difference such as gender, sexuality, race, class and generation).

Homosexuality; Art; Social Class; HIV/ AIDS; Social Markers of Difference