Ero guro is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque.
Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse, early 1867 ero guro
Grotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simu
Ero guro
…artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque. The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of English words or abbreviated words: ero from erotic and guro from grotesque…
Grotesque studies, Michelangelo.
Roman frescos in Nero's Domus Aurea, Rome, unknown painter, c. 64–68 AD.
Ceiling of the Piccolomini Library, Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, by Pinturicchio and his assistants, 1502–1503.
Pilgrim bottle, by the Fontana workshop from Urbino, Italy, c. 1560–1570, tin glazed earthenware (majolica), Victoria and Albert Museum, London