Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
A few days ago I stumbled across a coloured artwork that felt oddly familiar. It turned out to be a coloured remake of an original piece by Wighead, and the subtle alterations opened a whole new layer of meaning. The Original Sketch – Wighead’s Curvy Model The Coloured Remake –…
Tsuyoshi Yoshida (1924 – 1988) known by the pen name Go Mishima (三島剛, Mishima Go), was a Japanese homoerotic fetish artist and founder of the magazine Sabu. Mishima was born in 1924 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. At 18, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army, where he had his first homosexual experience with his commanding officer. Upon…
Hans Henrik Lerfeldt (1946 – 1989) was a Danish painter and graphic artist. He was educated at Academy of Fine Arts graphic school 1965-70 below Palle Nielsen. Hans Henrik Lerfeldt was an adoptive child and entered a very religious home. His adoptive father was a priest, and often left him…
There is very little known about this artist, who is often referred to as Katou Kahoru. She was a female artist who worked for various Sm magazines like SM Mania and SM Secret Novels in the 80’s The artist passed away around 2015. Please log in to view the full…
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, (1893 – 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. After his father’s death in 1900,…