By Erin Fae It’s no secret that I love all things vintage. Show me a scene with 1950s gender roles, and I swoon. Put me in a library packed with books about Victorian mourning and indulge me in 19th century vice. I am in heaven. What I love even more, however, is turning vintage inside-out […]
By Erin Fae
This photo (Catherine Opie, “Pervert—Self-Portrait,” NSFW link: http://emuseum2.guggenheim.org/media/full/2003.68_ph_web.jpg) scared me when I was 16. Part of the fear was my own fascination.
By Erin Fae
There must have been something in the coffee in Austria at the start of the last century. Maybe the models were different in their poses, inspiration and influence. Whatever it was, so much of the work produced by members of the Vienna Secession makes me swoon.
By Erin Fae
“Olympia is [a] fuck-you confrontation in a pearly pink package,” Molly Crabapple told me of one of her favorite paintings. “Manet was painting the top courtesan in Paris, surrounded by all the luxury she’d earned, staring out with dead contempt…
By Erin Fae
A series of paintings of aging men and a nubile young woman. Think you know where this is going? Think again.
By Erin Fae
You cannot just look away from one of Audrey Kawasaki’s paintings. The women in her paintings stare you down and beg you to come close. You have to move slowly from their eyes to their lips to the other details in the paintings before you can truly draw yourself away.
By Erin Fae
As a rule, I don’t like digital art. I find it too artificial and long for a sense of the artist’s hand. However, Ray Caesar may change the way I feel. The Toronto-based artist creates stunning portraits of great sensuality and fantasy using his computer.
By Erin Fae
*mmmm*
*slurp*
*OH! OH! OOHH!*
Comics have always been about fantasy and narrative. Thus, it should come as no surprise that there are explicitly erotic comics that explore every degree of sexuality
By Erin Fae
John Currin is one of contemporary art’s hip Americans. One of the most famous painters working today, his explicitly erotic pieces garner international attention. Currin uses everything from old Playboys and 1970s Danish porn to B-movies…
By Erin Fae
“Women were never more beautiful,” my friend said as she handed me my birthday present: a copy of Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston by Robert Hudovernik.
