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Serendipity is a funny thing. It was when I was looking for some biographical details about the British filmmaker Clive Barker known for his bloody Between 1866 and 1868, the sublime Meiji artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) created a set of very disturbed and disquieting designs. The most sadistic of these bloody […]

The Swiss graphic artist and architect André Henri Wilhelm Lambert (1884-1967) was a prominent representative of the so-called Art Nouveau style. He worked as an illustrator of books and magazines. The erotic pieces of Lambert remind of those by Gerda Wegener and Franz von Bayros. Fig. 1. Ovid teaches beautiful maidens the art of love […]

V. Heyenraets – Impressionist artist. Willett’s works are permeated with air, color, tenderness, lightness, surrounded by a special watercolor mood of relaxation, peace and freedom. Here are just a few of his paintings. Artist Willem Haenraets (Willem Heyenraets) was born in October 1940 in the city of Rotterdam. At the […]

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Peter Fendi (1796-1842) was an Austrian court painter and engraver. The fact that he was one of the most prominent artists of the Biedermeier period can be indirectly proved by the tendency to ascribe to him anonymous erotic paintings of that time. Fig. 1. Peter Fendi, Self-Portrait, 1830 (Wikipedia.org) Early […]

In this article, we’ll look at Aristide Maillol’s sensual sculptures and illustrations for texts by Vergil and Horace. These simple red and black prints give us an engaging representation of the Golden Age. Fig. 1. Maillol (Wikipedia.org) Master of Tapestry and Genius of Sculpture Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was the penultimate of five […]

Symbolists and surrealists regarded him as their precursor. His contemporaries in literature praised his works in novels and poems. After his death, the place where he lived became the first house museum in France. Japanese designer Yoshitaka Amano, who produced illustrations for the video game franchise Final Fantasy, said that […]

He Jiaying (b. 1957) is an artist who works majorly in a traditional Chinese  gongbi technique, which means ‘tidy.’ This painting manner implies a careful depiction of reality with different kinds of brushes. As the artist says, gongbi work takes 3 to 4 months and 12 hours a day. In his images, Jiaying […]

Jean-Honoré Nicolas Fragonard (1732-1806) was a prolific artist who left more than 550 paintings. Despite his productivity, Fragonard was completely ignored in the 19th century, probably, because his art belonged to the pre-revolutionary period of Louis XV. Nowadays, he is known as a prominent representative of the rococo style, along […]