Tag: ero guro nansensu

Takato Yamamoto

Takato Yamamoto’s artwork is the brilliant, heavy-lidded daughter of illustration, sex and violence. Yamamoto’s lush linework and exacting compositions depict young asian women in serene moments studded with darker narrative punchlines. Scenes of bondage and violence bleed slowly into the image as you look longer, yet Yamamoto never depicts any acts of violence–it is either impending or just completed. Yamamoto invented this style called “Heisei Estheticism,” meant for fantasy, sensual and period novels that explore similar themes of darkness, metamorphosis, love and death.

from http://www.juxtapoz.com/erotica/takato-yamamotos-heisei-estheticism

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I love these illustrations. I’m planning to incorporate them into my work for my FYP because the undertones of sensuality, danger and the uncanny play with all the thematic boundaries I’m interested in.

I would also like to use the fourth image as a guide for the way I compose images (i.e. a muted pattern with a central, detailed illustration) in the book as well, so that the images don’t always have to sit in isolation.

 

[NSFW] Guro: The Erotic Horror Art of Japanese Rebellion

In the deranged world of ero guro nansensu, the stranger and grosser an illustration, the more prized it is.

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Not to be confused with pornography or horror, pure ero guro nansensu is distinctive in that it focuses on dark erotic fantasies paired with really disgusting things.The name is taken from the English words “erotic grotesque nonsense,” and so blood and violent gore does not always necessarily feature in—a girl with ten eyeballs stuck in her genitals could be just as valid and incongruous. Back in the 1930s, these hand-drawn visuals were a response to the economic and political pressures that had begun to upbraid Japan’s party state. As the country turned increasingly militant, Japan’s already-long history and fascination with erotica thus became an intense exploration into the hedonistic, the sensationalist, the abnormal and taboo, reflecting not just newly-unearthed sensual desires but an eruption of extreme political change.

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/nsfw-guro-the-erotic-horror-art-of-japanese-rebellion

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I think it’s important to recognize that the grotesque has its own beauty, and that’s very much a concern of mine in my art-making. I don’t personally feel that a fascination with the unsavoury and bizarre reflects on one’s mental stability. I’m writing that because (outside of ADM and my art-making communities of friends) I have been blatantly asked if I was mentally unstable due to the content of my art. I’m not, and I think that creating something that is bleak or disturbing can be a safety valve for the negative emotions that someone can experience in life, whether or not their experiences are regarded as objectively harrowing or merely a product of some self-induced angst.

Also, I haven’t even drawn anything verging on ero guro, which I would say is far more disturbing than my illustrations. However, since I am using body horror as a large trope in my project, I am going to be looking at more examples of ero guro. Not for the sake of merely being gross, though. (And I don’t find ero guro that gross either. I find the Saw franchise gross.) The reason why I am mining for disturbing imagery is because I want to find that line between the enchanting and disturbing – that is the line I want to play with. It would be unsophisticated to merely elicit disgust without accompanying fascination.