It is my custom to
select a personal favourite artist from each letter based on
Technical Skill, Fetish Content and Sensuality. Leaving aside the
'one hit wonders', there are some real heavyweights in this group in
artistic terms - RA Schultz, Rex, Rohr and Roscoe. Their works show
convincing anatomy, design skill and dramatic visual effects.
For fetish
content, revisiting the work of Brad Rader has been something of a
revelation, Rex's subject matter is varied, audacious and beautifully
sleazy while Rohr's blood-thirsty images take fetish to the extremes.
The lesser artists in this group - RF, Rick Hard, Riton and Rorc have
also contributed striking and varied S&M studies but Rőhm's
fascist allusions push the boundaries too far for most, I suspect.
Raute's spanking pictures are important in their field but fail the
sensuality test for me.
Rex - Gagged
My opening samples
of R W Richards' work set the bar for sensuality in artwork and in
their different ways Rex, Roscoe and to a lesser extent Rohr all rise
to the challenge. I would also include Rico's solitary work here.
However, it's quite easy for me to pick a winner this time, it has to
be Rex, I think his atmospheric and technically exciting work has the
edge over Rader, Rohr and Roscoe. My closing sample of Rex's work
shows some elementary fetish ingredients - gag, leather, jockstrap
plus one of Rex's less alarming animal allusions. I suspect I may be
too naïve to understand what it's doing here! There's a nice touch
of humour as the gagged man (another admirably masculine specimen) ponders the inaccessibility of that
irresistible organ. Gagged and gagging I'd say.
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