#the grotesque

[yrzykyr]

[blackangelism]

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[pheere]

Leigh Bowery

[yume-fanfare]

something about this image is sending me

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Benediction  - The Grotesque

[onpyre]

MAENADS REAL

also! i have always maintained that the difference between the abject and the grotesque is the difference between the smell of a rotting corpse and a cooking one. the grotesque implicates you, and what’s more implicating than the smell of a roast friend to starving girls?

[lafcadiosadventures]

i am haunted by this self portrait Cellini includes on the sleeve of his Cosimo de Medici portrait. This is the man who would ultimately end his career as an artist forever, no more big commissions, no more monuments, not even getting payed for the work he had already done for his court.

It’s very interesting to compare the way he chooses to depict himself in the Vita, proud, reckless, him alone against the corruption of the courts and clergy,,, only his wits and craft as his weapons. and then this: terrified grimace, a blade (?) in his mouth, completely animalized. And the worst of all is that frightened side glance. That’s complete spiritual surrender right there. What did Cosimo think of this, what did Cellini expect him to think.

[movie--posters]

[marxalittle]

Wrote one of the foundational novels in two (minimum) genres in order to avoid having a conversation (and consequently having to escape a conversation) with George Gordon, Lord Byron. Threw her whole husband in front of him like yes, you two go do whatever it is no one wants to think about Lord Byron doing but he does all the time which is kinda why we don't like to think about it, antibiotics haven't been invented yet and his enthusiasms far outstrip his expertise, I will be literally anywhere else, staying up all night writing so he doesn't manage to fuck on this, the last undefiled flat surface in the whole of Switzerland.

actually, frankenstein is the name of the scientist. the horrible emo monster nobody wants to fucking talk to is named lord byron

[120daysofsodomm]

[prolibytherium]

If I didn't draw this fucking thing at least once I would probably die

[zephyrine-gale]

somebody called argenti and boothill guns n roses and i think thats neat

[bebx]

[valtsv]

roommate showed me his gargoyles (not a euphemism) only they weren't gargoyles they were grotesques, because they don't serve any functional architectural purpose (ie: as waterspouts), so i had to restrain myself from a category 5 pedantic fun ruiner moment

[hellenhighwater]

Forbidden orange juice

[saylorisoverboard]

i have certain love for bugs and the otherwise grotesque until it is near me.

i 💖 bugs but from a distance.