PugJesus2d ago
Helmet with grotesque mask-visor, Germany, ~1550 AD
Wild Sown4d ago

Mindbogglingly tone deaf for a day like today.

I think I've had enough of American Grotesque for tonight....

Let's see if we can build a #BetterWorld tomorrow.

#americans #grotesque #imperialism #tonedeaf #ignorance #extractivism #conquest #missioncontrol #nasa #imperialisme #ResourceWars #ArtemisII #colonialism #usa #space #moonmission #lunarexploration #theworldisnotenough #dontbeevil #dobetter

Dr Ian McCormickMar 27
Beware Maritime Monsters ! #grotesque

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5a2wmu7bggop6wt6syyqrdie/post/3mhtomdyzvs2p
Dr Ian McCormickMar 26
"Kilpeck is famous for the wealth of ebullient carvings left by the 11th-century masons; there are dozens of amusing, grotesque, and intricate carvings around the doors, windows, and roof line of the church. One of the finest small Norman churches in Britain." #grotesque #monstrous #stone #carving
Dr Ian McCormickMar 26
Green Man, a pagan symbol of fertility. Nave Ceiling Boss. Crowland Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire. #Easter #grotesque #monstrous
Public Domain Image ArchiveMar 23

Alberich, illustration for Wagner’s Das Rheingold (1896) by Aubrey Beardsley, from The Savoy Magazine.

Source: National Digital Library of PolandUniversity of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/78c41a99-5346-4970-a464-67124c5df955

#hairy #grotesque #decadent-movement #human-animal-hybrid #claws #raised-arms #decadence #hybrid-figures #drawing #art #publicdomain

Dr Ian McCormickMar 21
Object: Ira/ Pigritia (Wrath and Sloth) Series: The Deadly Sins Date: 1590-1645 Print made by Jakob von der Heyden #allegory #monstrous #grotesque
This Is My GlasgowMar 21

Love this grotesque on William Leiper's 1886 Gothic style on Hyndland Road in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture #grotesque

Dr Ian McCormickMar 20
Raffaello Coda da Rimini, grotesque detail, Volta Pinta, Palazzo Comunale, Assisi, Italy, 1556. #grotesque #satire #parody #transgression
Show threadDr Ian McCormickMar 20
"... Such things do not exist and cannot exist and never have existed. Hence, it is the new taste that has caused bad judges of poor art to prevail over true artistic excellence. " --- Vitruvius, On architecture, 30 BCE #art #architecture #design #monstrous #grotesque