Bondage artist
A bondage artist is an artist who depicts people in bondage, or other BDSM situations while a fetish artist depicts people in fetishistic situations or clothing.
Bondage art
In recent years, the annual SIGNY awards have been awarded to the bondage artists voted the best of that year.
- Bondage artists include
- Robert Bishop (aka The Bishop)
- COCO
- Dolcett
- Eve Ellis
- ENEG (Gene Bilbrew)
- Teo Jonelli
- Lou Kagan
- Michael Manning
- Fetish Diva Midori
- Georges Pichard
- Sardax
- Franco Saudelli
- Eric Stanton (Ernest Stanzoni; other pseudonyms: John Bee, Savage)
- Brian Tarsis
- John Willie
- Bill Ward
Fetish art
Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as bondage, BDSM, transvestism, domination/submission scenarios etc. -- sometimes in combination.
Many of the 'classic' 1940s, '50s and '60s 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 1954 fetish artist John Coutts (aka John Willie) founded Bizarre magazine. Bizarre was published in London and widely distributed 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 would inspire 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 like Robert Bishop were published extensively in bondage magazines. In recent years, the annual SIGNY awards have been awarded to the bondage artists voted the best of that year.
Many artists working in the mainstream comic book industry have included fetishistic imagery in their work, usually as a shock tactic or to denote villainy or corruption. The effect of depictions of beautiful women in tight fetish outfits on the sales of comics to a mostly teenage male comics-buying audience may also be a factor. In the 1950s, American comics with bondage or fetish themes began appearing. Around the same time, fetish artists influenced the cartoons of George Petty, Alberto Vargas and others, which featured in magazines like Playboy and Esquire. Arguably the best-known example of fetish imagery in comics is the catsuit-wearing, whip-wielding Catwoman, who has been called, "an icon of fetish art".
Many S&M, leather and fetish artists have produced images depicting urine fetishism ("watersports"), including Domino, Tom of Finland, Matt and The Hun.
Sometimes fetish art simply depicts a person dressed in fetish clothing. Fetish clothing includes undergarments, stockings, high heels, corsets and boots. A common fetish theme is a woman dressed as a dominatrix.
Fetish art in the artistic mainstream
Mainstream fine artists such as Allen Jones and Robert Mapplethorpe have included strong fetish elements in their work. An artist whose erotica transcends to mainstream collectors is found in the Shunga and Shibari style works of Hajime Sorayama. Taschen's books included artist Sorayama, whom his peer artists call a cross between Norman Rockwell and Dali or an imaginative modern-day Vargas. Sorayama's robotic diverse illustrative works are in permanent collections of MOMA and the Smithsonian Institute as well as the fetish arts in the private WEAM Museum collection. The Shunga arts appeared in a setting of federal court cases from about 2005 to 2010, all rendering decisions favorable to Sorayama's rights.
The works of contemporary fetish artists such as Roberto Baldazzini and Michael Manning are published by art book companies like NBM and Taschen.
Leather fetish
Robot fetish
Several artists have depicted robot fetish imagery, including most notably Hajime Sorayama.
- to be written
The comic book artist Brian Bolland has also included bondage elements in some of his work.
See also:
- Bondage magazine
- Fetish magazine
- Fetish photographer
- List of bondage models, writers, photographers and artists
- Poser art
- Sex Workers Art Show
External links
- ObsessionArt (possibly the world's largest selection of erotic art prints)
- Deviant Perversions (Bondage Photography in Toronto)
- Renderotica (A tremendous selection of 3D bondage and other erotic art)
- Deviant Perversions (Bondage Photography in Toronto)
- List of spanking artists
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