1) Abnormal and hideous 2) Art genre 3) Chess problem 4) Compact group of mountains 5) Fear the Walking Dead episode 6) French word used in English 7) Like a gargoyle 8) Literary genre 9) Ludicrously odd 10) Monstrous 11) Strangely distorted 12) Ugly 13) Unnatural
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1) Antic 2) Fantastic 3) Strange 4) Ugly 5) Weird
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a problem or study with an especially unnatural initial position, particularly one with large amounts of material or with a large material disparity between the sides.
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• (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. • (n.) Artificial grotto-work.
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Extravagant decorative motif in which figures of humans, mythological beasts, birds, animals and sphinxes are used at the whim of the artist.
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(from the article `comedy`) ...are judged. To the extent that the professions prove hollow and the practices vicious, the ironic perception darkens and deepens. The element of ... ...theatre and anti-illusionism. In his production of Blok`s Fairground Booth (1906) and his subsequent writings on this work, Meyerhold explored the ... [...
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in architecture and decorative art, fanciful mural or sculptural decoration involving mixed animal, human, and plant forms. The word is derived from ... [3 related articles]
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In art, a style in which a profusion of human figures, imaginary monsters, animals, flowers, and fruit are mingled in a fanciful and eccentric way. It is found particularly in...
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Derived from the term grotto which was used in the 16th century to describe the ruins of the Domus Aurea (Nero's palace in Rome). It describes painted or stucco decoration in a style frequent in ancient Rome which represented imaginary and fantastic motifs (plants interwoven with mythical or semi-human and animal figures).
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Decoration which either interweaves human and animal form with vegetation, or consists of a comically distorted face
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Extravagant decorative motif in which figures of humans, mythological beasts, birds, animals and sphinxes are used at the whim of the artist. The design elements are loosely linked by motifs such as intertwining scrolls, strapwork or foliage. Grotesque decoration was used in virtually every medium of the decorative arts -carved, inlaid or painted o …...
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Gro·tesque' (gro*tĕsk')
adjective [ French, from Italian
grottesco , from
grotta grotto. See
Grotto .] Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. ...
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Gro·tesque noun 1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
Dryden. 2. Artificial grotto-work.
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A marginal figure or animal, or hybrid combination of human and animal or plant, frequent especially in Gothic manuscript illumination and especially in marginal illumination.
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In art, grotesque is a capricious variety of arabesque ornamentation, which, as a whole, has no type in nature, the parts of animals, plants, and other incongruous elements being combined together. Grotesque was used by the Romans in decorative painting and revived by the artists of the Renaissance.
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Grotesque is a name given in old architecture to the light and fanciful ornaments used by the ancients in the decoration of the walls and some of the subordinate parts of their buildings. They are so called from their having been long buried.
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adj] - distorted and unnatural in shape or size 2. [n] - art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
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grotesque 1. Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as with appearance or manner. 2. Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance. 3. Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style. 4. A style of painting, sculpture, and ornamentation in which natural forms and monstrous figures are i...
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[Wuthering Heights] artwork that distorts the usual human or animal form.
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monstrous adjective distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; `tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas`; `twisted into monstrous shapes`
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Fantastic human or animal forms used as decoration, engraved, chased or modelled. Often associated with intertwining scrollwork, flowers and foliage to produce bizarre or extravagant motifs.
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(It. grottesca, from grotta, grotto) The idealized ugly. In aesthetics, the beauty of fantastic exaggeration, traditionally achieved by combining foliate and animal or human figures, as for example those found in the classic Roman and Pompeiian palaces and reproduced by Raphael in the Vatican. -- J.K.F.
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(art) In art, a style in which a profusion of human figures, imaginary monsters, animals, flowers, and fruit are mingled in a fanciful and eccentric way. It is found particularly in mural and sculptural decoration. Such decorations were found during excavations of Roman houses at the beginning...
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(literature) In literature, a character or location that is irregular, extravagant or fantastic in form. When used as a device, the purpose is often in the style of expressionism, making the grotesque a parody of human qualities or a distorted reflection of a familiar place. In literature, whe...
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distorted and unnatural in shape or size
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