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Posted by ErotiCart on 7/23/2009
Galleries showing examples of the Erotic Art of the past that have made the genre of Erotic Art what it is today.

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Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a French sculptor most famous for his iconic masterpiece "The Thinker."

Most are familiar with his sculptures though he worked in many mediums. He also painted in oils and in watercolours. The Musée Rodin holds 7,000 of his drawings and prints, in chalk and charcoal, and thirteen vigorous drypoints.

His paintings/drawings remind me of the style of a later artist Egon Schiele though his lines are looser with an Art Nouveau feel to them. Again, like Courbet, the subject of many of his paintings was in-your-face nudity and eroticism.
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Erotic Lithographs

Erotic Lithographs

Lithography is an ingenious printing process which involves a flat plate, usually made of limestone, where the surface has been treated with hydrophobic and hydrophilic chemicals so that when ink is applied to the plate it doesn't stick to the hydrophobic regions and moves to the hydrophilic regions. The plate is then pressed against paper to leave a print of an image.

Printing of erotic images was at a peak in France from the 1800s to the early 1900s when they were very popular with tourists and sold as postcards, though very few of these "postcards" could actually be sent through the postal service due to stricter regulations of pornography. In fact, many of the images produced were illegal at the time and thus the majority of erotic lithographs are by unknown artist wishing to remain anonymous.
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Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet ( 1819 - 1877 ) is best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes. He was from a time when the Romantics were in their prime like William Bouguereau who were painting in a highly finished style depicting beautiful mythological scenes. Courbet, however, was not a Romantic. Courbet, being a rebel at heart, portrayed reality in his paintings which brought him much criticism from the Romantics.
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Martin van Maele

Martin van Maele

(1863 - 1926)

Little is known about the life of Martin van Maele other than the catalogs of his works.

He provided illustrations for books by H G Wells as well as several French translations of Sherlock Holmes books.

Though he is probably best known for his erotic art especially his book of illustrations titled "La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs."
(3 images)
Mihaly Zichy

Mihaly Zichy

( 1827 - 1906 )

Mihály Zichy was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting.

He worked in many mediums including pencils, oil paints, watercolours and also produced many etchings, most famous of which is his "Love" series of erotic etchings produced during the 1870s
(3 images)
Thomas Rowlandson

Thomas Rowlandson

( 1756 - 1827 )

Thomas Rowlandson was an English caricaturist.

He studied at the Royal Academy and for a time in Paris.

In his youth he produced many wonderful "straight" paintings, though when misfortune came upon him he began doing more profitable art in the form of caricatures.

His work was often comical and had a touch of the surreal.

He was incredibly prolific in his lifetime, and among the art he produced was a large series of erotic wood cut engravings that were usually coloured by hand in watercolours.

Though we often think of the Victorians as being prudish, the fact that these erotic images were produced as engravings (as opposed to one off drawings) shows that there was a market for eroticism during the Georgian Era.
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 Artist:   ErotiCart  Contact Artist 
ErotiCart
My name is Mike Hannon and I am the curator of Eroti-Cart.com I'm here to represent the artists of the past who are sadly unable to make their contribution to this wonderful collection of Erotic Artists! We hope to highlight the key erotic artists throughout history that have made the genre of Erotic Art what it is today. Our intention is to spread awareness and greater acceptance for this most fascinating genre in art.

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