PE paintings and painters / PE subject matter in art in general

[cr]

Some years ago there was article in Exoteric zine about PE cinema, which led me to some good movies I hadn't seen and didn't know about.
As I like art books, I wondered, is there something you would call PE paintings or painters? From contemporary artists, of course one of the first I would think of, is Jukka Siikala. But there are others for sure. Go back some centuries and it seems, that Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel could be the forefathers of this imaginary genre.
I know, maybe it's some kind of silly topic, but looking forward to your contributions!


Edit: Changed/extended topic. All contributions to PE subject matter in art in general also very much welcome!

[Aldous]

Not silly at all. For more contemporary stuff and P.E. related, you should check on Jonathan Cannady's (Deathpile) work:

https://jonathancanady.com/


Also, VA Puumalainen (Contortus)

https://vpuumalainen.wordpress.com


or Nicola Vinciguerra a.k.a Tisbor

https://www.tisbor.com/

As for more "classic" stuff, Bruno Schulz's work comes to mind instantly.

[Aldous]

Bruno Richard who made the cover for The Sodality's "Beyond Unknown Pleasures"

Trevor Brown (of course...)

Another classic would be Otto Dix.

[cr]

Yes, thanks a lot, good ones!
I'd add Clovis Trouille and of course, Joe Coleman.

[Aldous]

Renzo Vespignani - great italian artist with a wide ammout of work. You might recognize his style from the Projekt Neue Ordnung compilations.

Petter Petterson - There are several black & white drawings related to body decay, mental madness, etc... Very saturated and obsessive line work

Jiří Sozanský - Textured work with bodies in tension, confrontation and collapse. Very organic and sketchy, but intense! Somehow I always remember stuff like Con-Dom when I see these illustrations and paintings

Roj Friberg - prolific swedish painter with these fantastic industrial landscapes. There are also some works with human body collapsed under stones that I find quite intense. There is this "nordic uneasiness" in his work

[Balor/SS1535]

Even though he primarily works in sculpture, the drawings of Lionel Maunz should fit this topic as well.

[Aldous]

The infamous Antoine Bernhart.

[DrRichard]

[APPLE]

Stefan Danielsson paintings have been used as covers for Whitehouse and IRM.

Macronympha had the 'Futurismo!' cassette and noise music generally could be considered to have overlap with the futurist movement.

I'm reminded that John Wayne Gacy was a painter too.

A certain historically significant Austrian started out as a painter. The Chapman Brothers bought and defaced original works by this artist by painting butterflies and rainbows onto them - https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2008-chapman-brothers-white-cube/1430 - the 'appropriation, intervention and pastiche' of this approach reminds me quite a bit of the treatment of historical sources within industrial music.

Also, a Vagina Dentata Organ performance in which he demonstrated the proper respect for works of high culture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaaFO_YBFM

[Hakaristi]

First contemporary painter that comes to mind is Naoki Sasayama. Grotesque watercolors.

https://studionega.wixsite.com/mysite/gallery-2

[Balor/SS1535]

Perhaps some works by Balthus could also fit (for thematic more than formal reasons): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489977

[cr]

I think Balthus fits well. And also his brother Pierre Klossowski.

[JLIAT]

The Chapman Bothers have produced sculptures and images some of an ironic take on Hell. And I suppose some of Hirst's work, and Koons made in heaven series?  Which also reminds me of Warhol's Death and Disaster prints. Or maybe Allen Jones "furniture" (not paintings!) which appeared in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. ??

[Balor/SS1535]

Which also reminds me of Warhol's Death and Disaster prints.

These were among the first that I thought of as well.  Definitely a perfect fit: "obsessive" repetition of violent imagery.

[online prowler]

Some years ago there was article in Exoteric zine about PE cinema, which led me to some good movies I hadn't seen and didn't know about.
As I like art books, I wondered, is there something you would call PE paintings or painters? From contemporary artists, of course one of the first I would think of, is Jukka Siikala. But there are others for sure. Go back some centuries and it seems, that Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel could be the forefathers of this imaginary genre.
I know, maybe it's some kind of silly topic, but looking forward to your contributions!

Good topic. I recall that Exoteric zine w fondness. I would suggest to expand topic to include: 'PE SUBJECT MATTER in ART'. And in this not only looking at the visuals per see, but also the ideas behind the works. I think this added approach opens up another way of seeing and understanding art, but also PE culture.

Not to set anything in stone I suggest a few artists I appreciate that in short deal with subject matter like death, punishment, decadence, humilation:

Artists:
Tsurisaki Kyiotaka - Death photography
Ito Seiu - Art and SM
Akio Fuji - SM photography, his work in bondage magazine Kinbiken Communications
Nobuyoshi Araki - his SM and decadent 1980 & 1990s works
Michael Salerno - Teenage Satanists fanzines (Kiddiepunk)
Kotaro Kobayashi - Photographer, editor, gallery owner, publisher

Books:
«Die Bilder über Die Strafe Und Abnormer Gefehlechtstrieb»
Too Negative
Ultra Negative
ORG magazine