Yet this is one of the most famous pictures by Hokusai , perhaps the greatest Japanese print artist of his or any other time. Rembrandt did some etchings of couples having sex. Picasso did many erotic pictures, as did Degas, Toulouse Lautrec and Rodin. George Grosz did some remarkably kinky watercolours.
What Sex Was Like in Feudal Japan
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The joy of art: why Japan embraced sex with a passion | Art | The Guardian
Please assign a menu to the primary menu location under menu. A nude pair of marble is entwined in a passionate embrace, their mouths are joined …. This is what embarrassed the Japanese. No, not the nudity of stone lovers and not even their frank embrace.
The joy of art: why Japan embraced sex with a passion
By Artspace Editors. In the Western tradition, the idealized nude and—more explicitly—sex have long been sticking points in artistic discourse across generations—controversial for their beauty on the one hand, and its supposedly sinful nature on the other. In stark contrast, Japanese erotica in paintings and prints have held a ubiquitous position in society, starting with the Heian aristocracy of the ninth century and trickling down to a rising, modern urban middle class.
Vending machines selling school girl's panties? Grown men reading pornographic comics in public? Gender segregated train-cars to protect women from gropers? Ear-cleaning parlors with very happy-endings?
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