![]() Once again, posterity favours the forthright and the unique over uniformity and compromise. ![]() Rops is furthermore important for being a pioneer in Belgian comics. He is noted for his drawings depicting erotic and Satanic themes. These weren’t the only works that Rops produced, there were plenty of landscapes and society portraits, but it’s these that he’s remembered for. Flicien Rops (7 July 1833 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist, known primarily as a printmaker in etching and aquatint. Rops, a Belgian working in Paris, is curious even by the standards of the disparate group who comprised the Symbolists and with whom he had some connections. After Mr Peacay’s comments regarding Félicien Rops I thought it time to devote a post to this impious artist. This can make much of his work seem modern in a way few artists of that period achieve today, and it’s a good bet that many Christians (especially those of the puritan American variety) would still find his pictures offensive. The art of Félicien Rops, 18331898 Pornokrates (1878). ![]() Whereas many artists of the time might hint at a fashionable blasphemy or Satanism, Rops’ dealings with these subjects were unequivocal, as was the outright pornographic tone of many of his drawings. Rops, a Belgian working in Paris, is curious even by the standards of the disparate group who comprised the Symbolists and with whom he had some connections. The series of manuscript materials contains letters, draft letters, and notes written by Henry Detouche and others. ![]()
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