List of fetish artists
Encyclopedia
A fetish artist is a sculptor, illustrator
, or painter
who makes fetish art
which depicts people in fetishistic
situations.
Illustrator
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, or painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
who makes fetish art
Fetish art
Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as bondage, BDSM, transvestism, domination/submission scenarios etc. -- sometimes in combination....
which depicts people in fetishistic
Fetishism
A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others...
situations.
Early fetish artists, 1940s-1990s
- Robert BishopRobert Bishop (artist)Robert K. Bishop was an American bondage artist, often credited as The Bishop or simply Bishop. Born in Michigan, he has been compared with John Willie and described as the "Rembrandt of bondage art"....
(a.k.a. The Bishop, Ashely) - Art FrahmArt FrahmArt Frahm was an American painter of campy pin-up girls and advertising. Frahm lived in Chicago, and was active from the 1940s to 1960s. Today he is best known for his “ladies in distress” pictures involving beautiful young women whose panties mysteriously flutter to the ground in public...
- Mario
- Eric StantonEric StantonEric Stanton was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist.The majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios.-Early life and career:...
(a.k.a. John Bee, Savage) - Tom of FinlandTom of FinlandTouko Laaksonen, best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland was a Finnish artist notable for his stylized androerotic and fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W...
- Alberto VargasAlberto VargasAlberto Vargas was a noted Peruvian painter of pin-up girls. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists...
- John WillieJohn WillieJohn Alexander Scott Coutts , better known as John Willie, was a pioneering fetish photographer, illustrator, and bondage artist.- Life and work :...
- Robert MapplethorpeRobert MapplethorpeRobert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
- Gilles Berquet
- Hans BellmerHans BellmerHans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.-Biography:...
- Bob Carlos ClarkeBob Carlos ClarkeRobert Carlos Clarke was an Irish photographer, known for his highly stylised erotic imagery....
Contemporary fetish artists
- DrubskinDrubskinDrubskin, also known as "Drub" is a fetish artist most known for his youthful, homoerotic illustrations and comic book work in the late twentieth century to present day...
- Patrick ConlonPatrick Conlon (artist)Patrick Conlon is an illustrator and tattooist in New York. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel Swarm, and collaborated with Michael Manning, another fetish artist, on The Tranceptor Series....
- Namio HarukawaNamio Harukawais a Japanese artist known for his realistic femdom erotica drawings. Harukawa's drawings feature voluptuous women with large breasts, wide hips, round buttocks and thick legs dominating, overpowering and humiliating smaller men...
- Eric KrollEric KrollEric Kroll is a fetish photographer and editor living in San Francisco, California.-Work:Eric Kroll has published some collections , composed introductions for influential works such as the compiled two-volume "Bizarre" collection and some Taschen folios...
- Roy Stuart
- Christopher Leach
- Julian Murphy
- Michael ManningMichael Manning (fetish artist)Michael Manning is a fetish artist based in Los Angeles, California, having moved there from San Francisco, California in late 2005. NBM has published several collections of his work, including Cathexis and Lumenagerie, and a series of graphic novels, The Spider Garden series, which consists of,...
- Falcon Na
- Tom SuttonTom SuttonTom Sutton was an American comic book artist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia...
(a.k.a. Dementia) - Franco SaudelliFranco SaudelliFranco Saudelli is an Italian comics artist, mostly known for his erotic stories.-Biography:Franco Saudelli was born in Latina , but moved soon to Rome....
- Luca Cirillo
- SardaxSardaxSardax is the nom-de-plume for an English artist based in London who specializes in fantastical images involving various forms of female dominance. Sardax is probably the most established of contemporary artist in the FemDom art genre with a worldwide collector base and a best selling book, The Art...
- Hajime SorayamaHajime Sorayamais a Japanese illustrator, known for his precisely detailed, erotic airbrush portrayals of women and feminine robots.-Biography:Hajime Sorayama was born in 1947 in Imabari, Ehime prefecture, Japan. He received his basic education at Imabari Kita High School. In 1965 he was admitted to the Shikoku...
- Ken MarcusKen MarcusKen Marcus is an American photographer, known for his glamour photography with Penthouse and Playboy magazines. For over 30 years he has produced hundreds of centerfolds, editorials, album covers, and advertisements. His work is shown in galleries, published in books and magazines...
- Stephen McClure
- Steve Diet GoeddeSteve Diet GoeddeSteve Diet Goedde is an American fetish photographer. Known for his erotic photographs of women paired with fetish imagery, he has had his photos published in two photography books, The Beauty of Fetish and The Beauty of Fetish, Vol. II. 'Diet' is a nickname from "Coma Diet," a past musical...
- Chad Michael Ward
- Philip WarnerPhilip WarnerPhilip G Warner is a freelance photographer in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been published world wide and featured on Playboy.com, the E Channel, Kink Events, CSI-NY, and in galleries across the US....
- Nathaniel MilljourNathaniel MilljourNathaniel Milljour is a self-taught Canadian Artist, painter and sculptor. He splits his time between Alberta, and British Columbia, Canada.In 2007, he established a small studio gallery in downtown Calgary under the name 'Adore Designs Studio and Gallery'...
- Max Drault & Alpha
Illustrators and graphic novelists
Many artists working in the mainstream comic book field have consistently included fetishistic imagery in their work, usually as a shock tactic or to denote villainy or corruption.- Brian BollandBrian BollandBrian Bolland is a British comics artist, known for his meticulous, detailed linework and eye-catching compositions. Best known in the UK as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in...
- John Byrne, X-Men, Fantastic Four
- Howard ChaykinHoward ChaykinHoward Victor Chaykin is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material...
, American Flagg, Black Kiss - Daniel ClowesDaniel ClowesDaniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
, Eightball - Alan DavisAlan DavisAlan Davis is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail.-UK work:...
, Excalibur - Steve DillonSteve DillonSteve Dillon is a British comic book artist, from Luton, Bedfordshire, best known for his work with writer Garth Ennis on Hellblazer, Preacher and The Punisher.-Biography:...
, Preacher - Frank MillerFrank Miller (comics)Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
, Sin City, The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Visual artists
The following fine artists have included fetishistic elements in their art:- Allen JonesAllen Jones (sculptor)Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...
- Helmut NewtonHelmut NewtonHelmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."-Early life:Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara...
- Tina Nibbana
- Andres SerranoAndres SerranoAndres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported...
- David LaChapelleDavid LaChapelleDavid LaChapelle is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style.-Early life:...