Website
and photography
by
Robert Arbegast
1937-2005
"Analysis
and Review
of the
Artist's
Work"
by
Paul Deegan
The discovery
of
Mulleian
by
author, Leonard
Roy Frank
in 1969
Dirksen-
Molloy
Productions,
television
programing
by
Dirk B.G. Dirksen
.
Dirksen-
Molloy
Productions,
Producer
of "Positive
Spin",
Damon Molloy
In
Dedication
To
those
who by there tireless effort and dedication
help make
possible in bringing forth into the public
consciousness the works of
G. Mark Mulleian.
Mulleian.com
grant this to be public domain,
All
Mulleian images on this Website are in the public domain, all paintings, and
drawings. Including any written articles on the artist is available for public
use. Please credit author.
In
January
1973, The Advocate (the biggest national political
gay newspaper in the U.S.) published one of the biggest
feature stories on
an individual of its day. Written by freelance writer Brian Jennings,
the article drew national attention
and generated
fan mail throughout
the U.S. Reiterating Mulleian’s status as
an already established
artist in San Francisco, the cover
story was two full pages dedicated to Mulleian's
art, his lifestyle, and his controversial
perspective
relating to human rights and individual
sexual expression in an era in which the Gay Culture was
still very much underground.
It was in this area of homosexual expression
that Mulleian's outspoken views drew the attention of
the FBI to the front door of the artist's studio
in an investigation into his controversial and challenging commentary
on aspects of fundamental social values during the
Nixon era and shortly after the death of J. Edgar
Hoover in 1972.
Two
weeks after the Advocate story broke, a similar
two-page cover feature would appear in the European equivalent of the Advocate,
the German magazine Him, a monthly periodical reaching
a wide audience in Belgium, Denmark, England, Italy, the Netherlands,
Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United States.
Mulleian was twenty-three years old.
G.
Mark Mulleian continues to deliver his message to the
nation as an antinuclear activist, a point of view best exemplified in
his best known work, Dies Irae, along with several other of his paintings
depicting environmental catastrophe, all of which have aired extensively
on Free Speech TV, Satellite Dish Network and
Direct TV since 2005, reaching 40 million homes nationwide, and is carried
on 183 Cable access stations nationally.
To
quote author Leonard Roy Frank, (who first discovered
Mulleian in 1969), “His work not only reflects reality as it is, but it
anticipates the reality that is to be; he expresses his true desire:
to bring to consciousness in other people human possibility’s.
In that sense, his work is controversial; it challenges the status quo.
In the end, it is the status quo he is not satisfied with.
Biographical
material and other information on the artist is constantly
being added, whether from the past, or from developing
events as they occur. For
more on the artist go to artist
biography
on the home page.
By
author and curator Paul Deegan
Computer
programmer
and writer
Robert F.
Arbegast designed and built this website
(www. mulleian.com)
in dedication to
Mulleian's
paintings.
The
website was uploaded
to the world wide web in the year 2000,
for the sole purpose
of serving as a
gallery
and museum
for G.
Mark Mulleian’s
work and original media archival articles
and biographical
material that followed
the artist’s
career starting from
1969. Mulleian is self thought and
started drawing and painting
at the age of five. However,
his
works became progressively more controversial
throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, and
by the age of twenty-two, he
was thought by many
to be ahead of his time.
