Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
For, although the said Giovanni and others have carried them to absolute perfection, it is none the less true that the chief praise is due to Morto, who was the first to bring them to light and to devote his whole attention to paintings of that kind, which are called grotesques because they were found for the most part in the grottoes of the ruins of Rome; besides which, every man knows that it is easy to make additions to anything once it has been discovered. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)
Before shops had invaded its ground-floor, and advertisements had defaced the exquisite line of carvings just above, the Rez de chaussée had seven low arcades whose pilasters and windows were carved with medallions, candelabra, and "grotesques" in low relief. ❋ Theodore Andrea Cook (1897)
"grotesques," I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, touching upon half-buried truths which nothing in my young life had prepared me for. ❋ Sherwood Anderson (1908)
Odd, then, that when Freud painted naked big people, such as Sue Tilley, from the £17m-selling work Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, or the performance artist Leigh Bowery, he would sometimes be criticised for exploiting them, cruelly turning them into circus show grotesques. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His gallery of grotesques are a forerunner to those Chester Gould and Basil Wolverton would later excel in. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Families who had laughed, lived and loved together, reduced to carbonized grotesques of human beings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Although, I have to take exception at the statement "His gallery of grotesques are a forerunner to those Chester Gould ..." ❋ Unknown (2009)
The beautifully presented exhibit begins with smaller pieces of armor, shields and helmets, some together with the original drawings for their mythological and historical motifs—Neptune and Hercules, Trojan heroes, fantastic animals and grotesques, sometimes enveloped in swirls of foliage. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)
The "plague doctor," with its long curved beak and historical association with deadly epidemic, disturbingly suggests the nightmarish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch. ❋ Francis X. Rocca (2011)
It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There will be galleries devoted to her photographs inspired by fashion characters and anti-fashion imagery, as well as her grotesques and dark carnival figures. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)
Persuasion is no exception to the rule, with the extended family around Anne providing a catalogue of typically lovable grotesques. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Work ranges from Richter-esque pixelated and photo-realist paintings to creepy drawings mixing carnival grotesques with Manga cartoons and photos created by placing objects on a scanner. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Though his love of grotesques seemed to amp up, perhaps I was not ready for them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Frida Kahlo and Francis Bacon made grotesques of themselves to feed the mystique of their suffering. ❋ Sam Sacks (2012)
[Mason] can't watch [horror movies] because he is easily [frightened] by the grotesquities. ❋ Danbrown4life (2008)
The picture of the woman attempting to protect the baby from a running car was an unforgettable and [grotesque] image to [any who] had [seen it] happen... ❋ JJYY27 (2009)
Pete: *puts [soup] in mouth* I think that this soup is great *soup pours [out mouth]*
Steve: That's the most [grotesque] thing I've ever seen ❋ Smallcroco (2020)
Man that [drunk girl] is [grotesque], [she can't] stand up. ❋ Hubert Girard (2007)
"[Oh my god] [Summer] you are [grotesque]!" ❋ Fashionyourseatbelt9 (2009)
[danielle] is sooooooooooooo grotesque ❋ Randomguy12841 (2009)
"[I Am Lost], Far From The Cross You Stand Before, Filled With Lust, We Are All Filled With Lust, We Want This Whore, Impale Your Flesh, Draped In Darkness, Your Guts Explode And Life Has Ceased Behind Your Eyes, Impalement, And Before, Live No More, Live No More, Overcome By Fever, Malevolent Disgrace, [Wretching] With Repulsion, Bleeding From The Eyes, Fester With Redemption, Your Blood Begins To Clot, Clogging The Corpulses In Your Mind, Ignoring The [Pretention], Wallow In [The Rot], Seven Lives Have Come And Gone, The First And The Last, And What Are We Even Here For? Some Twisted, Mindless Game? Or Is God Just Playign Tricks Upon My Brain? The Birth Of Death Begins, And With Your Life It Ends, My World Emmersed In Hate, Destroy What I Creat, Deficate, Choke [On My Shit], Urinate, Drown In My Piss, Godless, Hater Of The World, Your Mind Dwells On The Absurd, As I Contemplate Your Horrible Demise, Blood Streams Down Your Face, Drained, Drained Of Life" -Dying Fetus, Grotesque Impalement ❋ Reed (2006)
[Davids] [unicorn] [pijamas] were grotesque. ❋ Milkies69420 (2022)
That was most grotesque. ❋ Milkies69420 (2022)
“did you see that [shirtless guy] with the extremely dirty feet and [lime green] [paint] and all over his body?” “yeah that guy was grotesquing himself” ❋ Justacrabdancer (2022)
