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Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
Grotesque face in architecture at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 'Theatre of the Grotesque' lends itself to the aesthetics of the Grotesque art movement, translating many of its images in both set and costuming. [8] One notable occurrence is the use of makeup or masks to emulate the surreal faces which litter the movement. [8]
Misalliance is an ironic examination of the mating instincts of a varied group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend. Most of the romantic interest centres on the host's daughter, Hypatia Tarleton, a typical Shaw heroine who exemplifies his lifelong theory that in courtship, women are the relentless pursuers and men the apprehensively pursued.
Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law Philip to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia has already married Gino and becomes pregnant again. She gives birth to a son, but dies in childbirth. Caroline decides to go to Tuscany again to save the child from what she perceives will be a difficult life.
The grotesque body is a concept, or literary trope, put forward by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of François Rabelais' work. The essential principle of grotesque realism is degradation, the lowering of all that is abstract, spiritual, noble, and ideal to the material level.
In architecture, a grotesque (/ ɡ r oʊ ˈ t ɛ s k /) is a fantastic or mythical figure carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building. A chimera ( / k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə / ) is a type of grotesque depicting a mythical combination of multiple animals (sometimes including humans). [ 1 ]
There has been some debate, however, over the meaning of Poe's terms "Grotesque" and "Arabesque". Poe probably had seen the terms used by Sir Walter Scott in his essay "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition". [6] Both terms refer to a type of Islamic art used to decorate walls, especially in mosques. These art styles are known for their ...
Shaw's friend and biographer Archibald Henderson summarises the meaning of the play as follows: In spite of its apparently flippant title and mining camp language it is the most sincerely religious of plays. It is, in small compass, a narration of the workings of that religion which Shaw first projected in The Dream in Hell [Don Juan in Hell ...