Erotica in Art

 

" In art, immorality cannot exist.
Art is always sacred"

                                                     August Rodin

 

Louis Icart
 

(1888 - 1950)

Louis Icart was a unique Art Deco artist whose style combined the elegance of the Rococo, the buoyant curvilinear rhythms of Art Nouveau, and a modern sense of speed.  Using as his models the "modern girls" of this period, with their fashionable dresses, high-heeled shoes, red lipstick, short hair and eyeshadow, Icart produced sweet and seductive depictions of Paris in the Art Deco period.  He became enormously popular in France and the United States as the "Parisian Dreamer".

These sweet small etchings in the style of Rococo take their  bearing from the ancient world of Greek mythology. It`s a world free from "sin".