Mario Dubsky

Mario Dubsky (1939 – 4 August 1985) was an artist born in London, England, to Viennese Jewish parents who had converted to Christianity.

In New York, Dubsky and John Button co-created a large mural[4] in paint and collage at the then-headquarters of the Gay Activists Alliance.

In the late 1960s, Dubsky developed a more abstract colour field manner of painting with figuration, as in the large-scale Laocconese[5] of 1968 at University College London, named after the classical sculpture, the Laocoön Group.

His poems and illustrations in Tom Pilgrim's Progress Among The Consequences of Christianity, London, 1981,[8] with an introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith, was claimed by the artist, who was an atheist, as his angry response to the 1977 Blasphemy Trial of Gay News.

The inside covers reproduce the Gay Alliance mural made with Button and figures within explicitly engage with crucifixes and resemble monk-like characters.