TITLE    : Erotic Artists: Naming Names
STORYID  : erotic-artists-naming-names
SUMMARY  : A list of Who's Who among erotic artists and photographers.
AUTHOR   : Cal Y. Pygia@lit
DATE     : 2009-04-26
CATEGORY : reviews-and-essays
FLAGS    : 
TAGS     : |art|photographer|artist|erotic|erotica|lesbian|heterosexual|transsexual|bisexual|nude|


<i>Literotica Editor's Note: though the text of this article doesn't meet our 750  word requirement, we as art enthusiasts thought this list may be of interest to readers.</i>



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This isn't an article, an essay, or a review, really (so the editorial powers that be may quash it), but, if they don't, it will serve its purpose, which is to alert Literotica readers of names of artists and photographers whose work contains erotic or nude work that is well worth viewing and maybe even saving to one's hard drive or to one or more--probably more--compact discs, for personal (and private) use only, of course.  Much of this work is copyrighted, but that doesn't mean you cannot access and save it.  Just don't distribute it--at least not without the creator's permission.



Some of this art is gay, lesbian, or bisexual; some involves sadomasochism or BDSM; some is transsexual or transgender; much is heterosexual; a bit includes bestiality; many are simply beautiful or handsome nudes; and many other varieties.  In viewing these drawings and paintings, one might keep before him or her August Rodin's maxim, "In art, immortality cannot exist.  Art is always sacred."



Anyway, here's the list of names, in no particular order:



Monica Majoli

Marlene McCarty

Richard Kern

Gustave Courbet

William Adolphe Bouguereau

Francois Boucher

Jean-August Dominique Ingres

Adolf Ziegler

Mel Ramos

Lynda Bengalis

Yasumasa Morimura

Vanessa Beecroft

Louise Bourgeois

Francesco Clemente

Chuck Close

Gregory Crewdson

John Currin

Sante D'Orazio

Anh Duong

Keith Edmeir and Farrah Fawcett

Tracey Emin

Eric Fischl

Nan Goldin

David LaChapelle

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Malerie Marder

Takashi Murakami

Annie Leibovitz

Damian Loeb

Sally Mann

Julian Opie

Rankin

Thomas Ruff

Jenny Saville

Cindy Sherman

Kiki (or Kike) Smith

Jock Sturges

Sam Taylor-Wood

Tom Wesselmann

Lisa Yuskavage

Makoto Aida

Claudia Alessandri

William Bailey

Marc Baptiste

Tina Barney

Bo Bartlett

Alvin Booth

Don Brown

Renee Cox

Philip Pearlstein

Graydon Parrish

Leonard Nimoy

Peter Lindbergh

Nina Levy

Kinke Kooi

Nadav Grannan

Judy Fox

Katherine Doyle

Patricia Cronin

Carlo Maria Mariani

Richard Phillips

Lisa Yuskavage

Su-en Wong

Leonor Fini

Duane Michaels

Francesco Goya

Giulio Romano

Maria Alquilar

Paul Avril

Franz von Bayros

Paul Emile Becat

Mahlon Blaine

Antoine Borel

Agostino Carracci

Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte

Achille Deveria

Javier Gil

George Grosz

Yoshifumi Hayashi

Jito

Heinrich Lossow

Andre Masson

Georges Pichard

Felicien Rops

Luis Royo

Gerda Wegener

Egon Schiele

Erich Von Gotha

Mihaly Zichy

Hans Baldung

Aubrey Beardsley

Hans Bellmer

Mark Blanton

Uwe Bremer

Erica Chappuis

Eugene Delacroix and Theodore Gericault

Albert Dubout

Peter Fendi

Yarek Godfrey

Namio Harukawa

Antuna Horacio

Louis Icart

Katharina Kranichfeld

Martin van Maele

Marquis de Panasewicz

Pablo Picasso

Guilio Pipi

Thomas Rowlandson

Aslan Alain

Suzanne Ballivet

Tomi Ungerer

Balthus

Jack Flesher

Julian Mandel

Roy Stuart

Andrey Slastyonoff

H. R. Giger

Tom of Finland

Etienne

Frank Frazetta

Boris Vallejo

Julie Bell

Dorian Cleavenger

Clayde Caldwell

Wally Wood

Wojtek Siudmak

Herman Smorenburg

Amano Yashitaka

Howard David Johnson

Brian Froud

Ernst Fuchs

Bruno di Majo

Frank Kortan

Michael Fuchs

Eli Tiunine

Katharina Kranichfeld

Edward Black Kim

Istvan Sandorfi

Arian

Guo Beiping

Michael Bergt

Charles Billich

Aaron Board

Brasling

John Brockington

Alexey Buryak

Antonio Cazorla

Bolan Chen

Nicolai Chystiakov

Viviane Cisinski

Ray Coia

Kamille Corry

Mile Davidovic

Kristine Diehl

Virgin Elliott

John Enright

Carl Frieseke

Istvan Gal Gene

Daniel Graves

Fred Hatt

Andre Hembert

Marie Heumesser

Philip Hollawell

Jill Hooper

Ted Seth Jacobs

Kelyne

Marianna Korol

L'Arche

Patric Le Flohic

Steven Levin

Bryce Cameron Liston

Jian Lu

Andrzej Malinowski

Brian McCarthy

Robert McGinnis

Paul Milosevich

Terje Adler Moerk

Alyssa Monks

Brad Noble

Ignacio Diaz Olano

Stanlavs Penrhyn

Yves Plateau

S. Quinsac

Anthony Ryder

Don Seegmiller

Nelson Shanks

Timothy Stotz

George Ward

Mauro Yrigoyen

Guan Zeju

Spencer Tunick

Miguel Avataneo

Jeff Barson

Gary Benfield

Tate Bernard

Marnix Bleeckere

Giovanni Boldini

Guy Brauns

Paul Brown

Laila Carlsen

Bernard Charoy

Pascal Chove

Jose Manuel Ciria

Robert Coane

J. Corno

Markus Csaba

Daniel Diaz

David Diener

Enjolras

Gigino Falconi

Jeffrey Gold

Adrian Gottleib

Randy Groden

Les Hayes

Michael Henry

Ed Hicks

Susan Hing-Sammons

Maureen Hyde

Joaquin

Savijay Kumar

Michael Lasoff

Frolo Leonne

Ben Long

Bill Mack

Richard Maury

Can McCurry

Levy-Dhurmer

Anke Meier

Kozo Mio

Rables Munos

Peter Nixon

Evan Oberholster

Anna Paik

Daeni Pino

Djordje Prudnikoff

Tomasz Rut

Serpieri

Soan

Janet Treby

Richard Young

Roman Zaslonov

Shawn Zents

Nelson Shanks

Lara Adams

Rolf Armstrong

Joyce Ballantyne

Enoch Bolles

Olivia de Berardinis

Al Brule

Ernest Chiriaka

Edward D'Ancona

Gil Elvgren

Harry Ekman

Peter Driben

Jules Erbit

Fisher Harrison

Jack Henslee

John Kacere

Jennifer Janesko

Greg Hildebrandt

Bill Layne

Jerry von Lind

Bill Medcalf

Susan Meunier

Earl Moran

Zoe Mozert

George Petty

Pearl Frush

K. O. Munson

Bill Randall

Edward Runci

Xavier Sarger

Hajime Sorayama

T. N. Thompson

Fritz Willis

Billy de Vorss

Alberto Vargas

Ted Withers

George Quintana

Charles Dana Gibson

Paul Chabas

Haddon Sundblom

Earl MacPherson

Patrick Nagel

Odd Nerdrum

Hieronymus Bosch

David Ligare

Jeff Koons

Agostino Arrivabene

Jean Claude Claeys

Karl Persson

Martin Elder

Vera Donskaja

Audrey Kawasaki

Walter Girotto

Jean-Marie Poumeyro

Will Kissmer

Kizimecca

Terry Rodgers

Deborah Poynton

Robert Dale Williams

Michael Hussar

David Nicholson

Eiichi Yamamoto

Gustav Dore

Henry Darger

Christopher Leach

Petter Hegre 

