
Mirrors allow for more flexible compositions, and at the same time they place rigid demands on artists. Even photographers have to avoid showing up in the mirror (unless they’re trying to), but for painters and illustrators, drawing a mirror image correctly is a special challenge.
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Le Cuir Triomphant, 1934
There were two fetish authors who both used the pseudonym Alan Mac Clyde. This is by the earlier of the two. The cover design is by Carlo, and I’ve seen it referenced as the earliest example of the modern, hard-media leather dominatrix. Though right here at the get-go, the subs are in hard-media leather fetish, too.
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The September 1956 cover of Man’s Life. All the covers were more or less in this vein, but Weasels Ripped My Flesh would get immortalized by Frank Zappa.
if you are not familiar with MAN’S LIFE here is a good introduction
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1819. One of the most famous male-sub paintings of all time…
The Torture of Prometheus ~ Jean Louis Cesar Lair
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David Delamare, Ghost Latitudes
Oddly, after cats and dogs, the #3 animal that reaches my dashboard appears to be giraffes. It’s as if erotic painters and photographers get a lady naked, and they say: “Huh, what she needs is a huge fucking ungulate.”
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Tagging this was interesting.
LOL I like how he’s snapping the dudes neck wtf.
“This is too much for your bald eyes.”
tumblr user rabbithugs what are you doing out in space
just hangin out
“This is too much for your bald eyes.” will be my next tumblr’s title

Leda in wonderland.
(Parkes is a surrealist painter and sculptor whose work is worth checking out…)
Callipygean Art
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Assuming that this painting is modern, but I have no idea, actually.
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(Almost certainly Gerome.)
Prisoners awaiting the lions in the circus maximus. Of all the classic Orientalist paintings I can think of, this is perhaps the most obviously sado-erotic: a bestial execution of naked, bound prisoners. They are probably all meant to be girls, but it’s possible that the one on the far left is a boy, which I like to imagine.
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Arcimboldo.
I can’t decide if they’re leaving her there, or they’re the ones picking her up. I think the former.