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Fetish art
Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as S&M, dominance and submission, bondage, transvestism and the like, sometimes in combination. It may simply depict a person dressed in fetish clothing, which could include undergarments, stockings, high heels, corsets, or boots. A common fetish theme is a woman dressed as a dominatrix.
Fetish art has been around for a very long time, tracing all the way back to the Han Dynasty in China where some of the earliest pieces of fetish art were found on carved stone and earthenware tiles which depicted an orgy in the springtime. Chinese fetish art in later periods such as the Qing Dynasty tended to show sex in what was considered a more tranquil way where themes of sadism and rape were rarely depicted, and when it was it was normally orchestrated by a man who was depicted as a commoner because they were considered less civilized. Objects such as pomegranates, lotus flowers, peonies, coral, and even rocks were used as sort of symbolic euphemisms for intercourse and genitalia and were depicted in their art. These old symbols still have an impact in modern fetish art in China where they still see use due to censorship on erotic art.
Shunga was a popular form of fetish art during Japan's Edo Period and the following Meiji Era, though shunga art can be traced back all the way to the Heian Era. This type of art was produced and sold lucratively due to it being banned by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate in 1722. Done in the ukiyo-e style, wood block prints were widely used to make and reproduce shunga artwork, with some luxurious prints even going as far to have metallic printing and gradated shading. The more dominant figure was depicted as larger, both in height and with genitalia to a point where it would be disproportionate to the human body. This size-difference was meant to depict age or class difference, with the older or higher class individual being larger and the dominant one.
Heterosexuality was the most common, however themes of homosexuality between two men, as well as bestiality were depicted in shunga as well. A well-known depiction of bestiality in shunga is The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Katsushika Hokusai which illustrates a woman being given oral sex from an octopus as it wraps its tentacles around her. Homosexuality between men was primarily depicted in shunga with an older man partnered with an adolescent or prepubescent boy because age-structured homosexuality was considered normal during the time period. Intercourse between two women was also depicted in shunga artwork, though it is comparatively more rare. There was no concept of lesbianism in Japan at the time, so the artwork was made by men entirely for the male gaze.
Orientalist fetish art was originally started by Europeans in the 19th century because imperialism had brought European attention to these nations they considered to be exotic. These European artists relied on their own personal fantasies and imagination, creating fetish art depicting harems of women in nude or Oriental dress that was largely unrealistic to the actual places depicted and didn’t show a full understanding of their cultures. Though it created inaccurate stereotypes, orientalist fetish art was largely popular in both Europe and America and it remains popular to this day.
Many of the 'classic' 1940s, 1950s and 1960s-era fetish artists such as Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew began their careers at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company (later Nutrix), creating drawings for episodic illustrated bondage stories.
In 1946 fetish artist John Coutts (a.k.a. John Willie) founded Bizarre magazine. Bizarre was first published in Canada, then printed in the U.S., and was the inspiration for a number of new fetish magazines such as Bizarre Life. In 1957 English engineer John Sutcliffe founded Atomage magazine, which featured images of the rubber clothing he had made. Sutcliffe's work was an inspiration for Dianna Rigg's leather-catsuit-wearing character in The Avengers, a TV show that "opened the floodgates for fetish-SM images".
In the 1970s and 1980s, fetish artists such as Robert Bishop were published extensively in bondage magazines. In more recent years, the annual SIGNY awards have been awarded to the bondage artists voted the best of that year.
Fetish art
Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as S&M, dominance and submission, bondage, transvestism and the like, sometimes in combination. It may simply depict a person dressed in fetish clothing, which could include undergarments, stockings, high heels, corsets, or boots. A common fetish theme is a woman dressed as a dominatrix.
Fetish art has been around for a very long time, tracing all the way back to the Han Dynasty in China where some of the earliest pieces of fetish art were found on carved stone and earthenware tiles which depicted an orgy in the springtime. Chinese fetish art in later periods such as the Qing Dynasty tended to show sex in what was considered a more tranquil way where themes of sadism and rape were rarely depicted, and when it was it was normally orchestrated by a man who was depicted as a commoner because they were considered less civilized. Objects such as pomegranates, lotus flowers, peonies, coral, and even rocks were used as sort of symbolic euphemisms for intercourse and genitalia and were depicted in their art. These old symbols still have an impact in modern fetish art in China where they still see use due to censorship on erotic art.
Shunga was a popular form of fetish art during Japan's Edo Period and the following Meiji Era, though shunga art can be traced back all the way to the Heian Era. This type of art was produced and sold lucratively due to it being banned by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate in 1722. Done in the ukiyo-e style, wood block prints were widely used to make and reproduce shunga artwork, with some luxurious prints even going as far to have metallic printing and gradated shading. The more dominant figure was depicted as larger, both in height and with genitalia to a point where it would be disproportionate to the human body. This size-difference was meant to depict age or class difference, with the older or higher class individual being larger and the dominant one.
Heterosexuality was the most common, however themes of homosexuality between two men, as well as bestiality were depicted in shunga as well. A well-known depiction of bestiality in shunga is The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Katsushika Hokusai which illustrates a woman being given oral sex from an octopus as it wraps its tentacles around her. Homosexuality between men was primarily depicted in shunga with an older man partnered with an adolescent or prepubescent boy because age-structured homosexuality was considered normal during the time period. Intercourse between two women was also depicted in shunga artwork, though it is comparatively more rare. There was no concept of lesbianism in Japan at the time, so the artwork was made by men entirely for the male gaze.
Orientalist fetish art was originally started by Europeans in the 19th century because imperialism had brought European attention to these nations they considered to be exotic. These European artists relied on their own personal fantasies and imagination, creating fetish art depicting harems of women in nude or Oriental dress that was largely unrealistic to the actual places depicted and didn’t show a full understanding of their cultures. Though it created inaccurate stereotypes, orientalist fetish art was largely popular in both Europe and America and it remains popular to this day.
Many of the 'classic' 1940s, 1950s and 1960s-era fetish artists such as Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew began their careers at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company (later Nutrix), creating drawings for episodic illustrated bondage stories.
In 1946 fetish artist John Coutts (a.k.a. John Willie) founded Bizarre magazine. Bizarre was first published in Canada, then printed in the U.S., and was the inspiration for a number of new fetish magazines such as Bizarre Life. In 1957 English engineer John Sutcliffe founded Atomage magazine, which featured images of the rubber clothing he had made. Sutcliffe's work was an inspiration for Dianna Rigg's leather-catsuit-wearing character in The Avengers, a TV show that "opened the floodgates for fetish-SM images".
In the 1970s and 1980s, fetish artists such as Robert Bishop were published extensively in bondage magazines. In more recent years, the annual SIGNY awards have been awarded to the bondage artists voted the best of that year.
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