The name MAROTU is a stylised version of the Portuguese word maroto which means naughty.
MAROTU is an art project where new images are created by fusing body and sexual expression with works of art. The body becomes the canvas, bluring the line between obscenity and beauty. The depictions of bondage, aside their aesthetic value, are used to provide contrast to the serenity of the artwork itself and create a duality in the experience of the observer.
Great care was taken in order to only select artworks that are free from copyright such as public domain images or images licensed under creative commons which can therefore be used for any of our purposes. Below you will find a full list of the used images and their sources. If you believe that we might be infringing on any copyright we would greatly appreciate that you contact us. Such contents will be immediately removed.
| Schiele, Egon | – | Nude in Black Stockings (1917) | The MET Museum |
| van Gogh, Vincent | – | Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) | The MET Museum |
| Turner, William | – | Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842) | Wikimedia Commons |
| Goya, Francisco | – | The Third of May 1808 (1814) | Creative Commons |
| Klimt, Gustav | – | Judith (1901) | Belvedere Museum |
| Schiele, Egon | – | Self-Portrait (1911) | The MET Museum |
| Klee, Paul | – | Theater–Mountain–Construction (1920) | The MET Museum |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | – | Vitruvian Man (1490) | Doug Williams @ Creative Commons |
| Manet, Édouard | – | Bullfight (1865-1866) | Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection @ artic.edu |
| Schillinger, Joseph | – | Green Squares (ca. 1934) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Cézanne, Paul | – | Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902-1906) | The MET Museum |
| Monet, Claude | – | The Japanese Footbridge (1899) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Goya, Francisco | – | El tío Paquete (1819-1820) | Creative Commons |
| Morris, William | – | Jasmine | The MET Museum |
| Turner, William | – | The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) | Google Cultural Institute |
| Bruegel, Pieter | – | The Alchemist (ca.1558) | The MET Museum |
| Kirchner, Ludwig Ernst | – | Dance Hall Bellevue (1909–1910) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Sargent, John Singer | – | Miss Beatrice Townsend (1882) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Signac, Paul | – | Notre Dame de la Garde (ca. 1905–1906) | The MET Museum |
| van Gogh, Vincent | – | The Starry Night (1889) | Christopher S. Penn @ Creative Commons |
| Morikaga, Megata | – | Hasu (1870–1880) | Library of Congress |
| Demuth, Paul | – | I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928) | The MET Museum |
| Mucha, Alphonse Maria | – | Stained glass window for the facade of the Fouquet boutique | The Public Institution Paris Musées |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | – | The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right (1510-1513) | The MET Museum |
| Manet, Édouard | – | At the Races (1875) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Rafael, Sanzio | – | Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga (ca.1504) | Wikimedia Commons |
| Monet, Claude | – | The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1903) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Bruegel, Pieter | – | Turmbau zu Babel (1563) | rpi-virtuell @ Creative Commons |
| Schillinger, Joseph | – | Blue Gray Violet Wheel (ca. 1934) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Degas, Edgar | – | The Dance Class (1874) | The MET Museum |
| Rafael, Sanzio | – | Les Trois Grâces (ca.1503-1505) | Google Art Project |
| Rousseau, Henri | – | Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest (1905) | Barnes Foundation |
| Morris, William | – | Blue marigold | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Bosch, Hieronymus | – | Death and the Miser (1485) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Jung, Moriz | – | First Ascent of Monte Domapozza in the Dolomites (1911) | The MET Museum |
| Degas, Edgar | – | The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (1922) | The MET Museum |
| Redon, Odilon | – | Flower Clouds (1903) | Art Institute of Chicago |
| Kandinsky, Wassily | – | Improvisation Klamm (1914) | Allie Caulfield @ Creative Commons |
| Signac, Paul | – | The Buoy (1894) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Mucha, Alphonse Maria | – | Zodiaque or La Plume (ca. 1896–1897) | The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Klimt, Gustav | – | Der Kuss (1908-1909) | Belvedere Museum |
| Morikaga, Megata | – | Peach tree branches with leaves and blossoms (1870–1880) | Library of Congress |
| Rousseau, Henri | – | Rendezvous in the Forest (1889) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Cézanne, Paul | – | The Battle of Love (1880) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Demuth, Paul | – | After Sir Christopher Wren (1920) | The MET Museum |
| Bosch, Hieronymus | – | Christ’s Descent into Hell | The MET Museum |
| Sargent, John Singer | – | Nonchaloir (1911) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Kirchner, Ludwig Ernst | – | Winter Landscape in Moonlight (1919) | The Detroit Institute of Arts |
| Redon, odilon | – | Nasturtiums (1905) | Yale University Art Gallery |
| Klee, Paul | – | Persische Nachtigallen (1917) | The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Kandinsky, Wassily | – | Sans titre (1930) | Centre Pompidou |
| Jung, Moriz | – | The Duke of Gramatneiss’s Famous Pack of Birds (1911) | The MET Museum |
| Jung, Moriz | – | Pitbull Terrier (1912) | The MET Museum |
| Schiele, Egon | – | Reinerbub (1910) | Belvedere Museum |
| Mucha, Alphonse Maria | – | Stained Glass Window for the fassade of the Fouquet Boutique | The Public Institution Paris Musées |
| van Gogh, Vincent | – | Sunflowers (1887) | The MET Museum |
| Klimt, Gustav | – | Baby, cradle (1917-1918) | National Gallery of Art |
| Kirchner, Ludwig Ernst | – | Cemetery in the Forest (1933) | The Detroit Institute of Arts |
| Redon, Odilon | – | Pandora (1910—1912) | National Gallery of Art |
| Demuth, Paul | – | Piano Mover’s Holiday (1919) | The Barnes Foundation |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | – | Lady with an Ermine – Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (1489–1491) | The National Museum in Krakow |
| Cézanne, Paul | – | Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue (1869–1871) | J. Paul Getty Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Printed Linen – Honeysuckle (1896) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Bruegel, Pieter | – | The Harvesters (1565) | The MET Museum |
| Signac, Paul | – | Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso) (1891) | The MET Museum |
| Rafael, Sanzio | – | Galatea (c. 1512) | Wikimedia Commons |
| Sargent, John Singer | – | Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field (1885) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Schillinger, Joseph | – | Study in Rhythm: Red and Gold (ca.1934) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Bosch, Hieronymus | – | Sheet of cripples, beggars | The New York Public Library |
| Kandinsky, Wassily | – | Langsam heraus (1931) | Centre Pompidou |
| Demuth, Paul | – | Machinery (1920) | The MET Museum |
| Degas, Edgar | – | The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage (1874) | The MET Museum |
| Kandinsky, Wassily | – | Brun (1934) | Centre Pompidou |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | – | Ginevra de’ Benci (1474-1478) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Bosch, Hieronymus | – | Hell panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights | Wikimedia Commons |
| Morikaga, Megata | – | Matsu pine during (1870–1880) | Library of Congress |
| Morris, William | – | Apple pattern (1877) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Cézanne, Paul | – | Bathers (1874-1875) | The MET Museum |
| Redon, Odilon | – | Pandora (1910—1912) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Klee, Paul | – | The Man Under the Pear Tree (1921) | The MET Museum |
| Schillinger, Joseph | – | Area Broken by Perpendiculars (ca.1934) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Schiele, Egon | – | Standing Nude with Orange Drapery (1914) | The MET Museum |
| Manet, Édouard | – | The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil (1874) | The MET Museum |
| Rafael, Sanzio | – | The School of Atens | Wikimedia Commons |
| Signac, Paul | – | Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso) (1891) | The MET Museum |
| Rousseau, Henri | – | Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo (1908) | Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Goya, Francisco | – | Blind Singer (1824-1828) | The MET Museum |
| Klee, Paul | – | The Harbinger of Autumn (1922) | Yale University Art Gallery |
| Sargent, John Singer | – | Gitana (1876) | The MET Museum |
| van Gogh, Vincent | – | Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887) | The MET Museum |
| Turner, William | – | The Fighting Temeraire (1838) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Degas, Edgar | – | Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub (1885) | The MET Museum |
| Klimt, Gustav | – | Sonnenblume (1907-1908) | Belvedere Museum |
| Monet, Claude | – | The Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil (1873) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Bruegel, Pieter | – | The triumph of death | Wikimedia Commons |
| Turner, William | – | Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (1835) | The MET Museum |
| Monet, Claude | – | Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight (1894) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Morikaga, Megata | – | Stem with leaves and small flowers (1870–1880) | Library of Congress |
| Mucha, Alphonse Maria | – | The Seasons (1897) | The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Kirchner, Ludwig Ernst | – | Zurich (1926) | Minneapolis Institute of Art |
| Manet, Édouard | – | Boating (1874) | The MET Museum |
| Goya, Francisco | – | Saturno devorando a un hijo (1819-1823) | Wikimedia Commons |
| Moriz, Jung | – | Greyhound (1912) | The MET Museum |
| Rousseau, Henri | – | The Equatorial Jungle (1909) | The National Gallery of Art |
| Morris, William | – | Blue Marigold | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Daisy pattern (1862) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Snakeshead pattern (1876-1877) | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Morris, William | – | St.James pattern (1881) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Daisy pattern (1864) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Jasmine | MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Medway pattern (1885) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Trellis | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Golden Bough | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Larkspur pattern (1874) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Larkspur | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Tulip | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Blue marigold | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Medway pattern (1885) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Vine pattern (1873) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Willow bough | RAWPIXEL |
| Morris, William | – | Holland Park | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Jasmine | MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Kennet | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Larkspur pattern (1874) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Daisy pattern (1864) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Fruit or Pomegranate | MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Marigold pattern (1875) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Pink and Rose | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Daisy pattern (1862) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Honeysuckle (1874) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Printed Linen – Honeysuckle (1896) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | willow bough | RAWPIXEL |
| Morris, William | – | Kennet | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Pink and Rose | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Snakeshead pattern (1876-1877) | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Morris, William | – | Tulip | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Apple pattern (1877) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Daisy | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Vine pattern (1873) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Wild Tulip | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Birds | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Fruit or Pomegranate | MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Holland Park | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Vine pattern (1873) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Golden Bough | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Honeysuckle (1874) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Marigold pattern (1875) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Trellis | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Apple pattern (1877) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | St.James pattern (1881) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Vine pattern (1873) | The Smithsonian Institution |
| Morris, William | – | Wild Tulip | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Birds | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Daisy | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Larkspur | The MET Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Printed Linen – Honeysuckle (1896) | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Turkish bed cover | The Birmingham Museum |
| Morris, William | – | Vine pattern (1873) | The Smithsonian Institution |