Word: grotesquesness
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Flippant Victorians parodied his name as Weirdsley Daubery or Awfly Weirdly. For the art of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, whose sinuous draftsmanship fluttered through the pages of the 1890s farthest-out books, was the scandalous titillation of his day. He seemed to have dipped his pen in laudanum and night shade...
Of his art brut (raw art), Dubuffet says: "I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values." To break down the "unhealthy convention" of differentiating ugliness from beauty, he has turned out mudpie paintings covered with coarse scratchings and reduced the...
Through this frail plot, described as "a fairy tale for adults," Fellini parades a gallery of grotesques both sacred and profane: whores, prophets, shrouded nuns, epicene cultists, damned maidens ablaze, sundry vile bodies and Freudian symbols on horseback. All are flamboyantly colorful creations. And a few of the film'...
The Stressful Present. Two leaders of the new generation are Eduardo Paolozzi and Anthony Caro, both 41. Paolozzi turned from golem grotesques of junkyard assemblages of gears and bolts to hand-tooled totems, such as Artificial Sun, which are unthreatening icons to a world that accepts machine culture willingly. Caro...
Paste Jewels. Stacton embellishes this attractive plan with his vivid sense of scene and detail. He freights it with learning and lively language. He floods it with his unique virtues-and the book drowns. Gustavus and Oxenstierna are the most real figures, but they are not really seen in action...