#grotesque — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #grotesque, aggregated by home.social.
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Hanging out with this handsome fellow, who looks out from atop Polwarth Parish Church
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55478045197/in/photostream/lightbox/#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #architecture #photography #photographie #gargoyle #grotesque #sculpture #church #eglise #PolwarthParishChurch #architecture
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Fascinating grotesque figurine, bronze, the Netherlands, 18th century AD
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Unpublished design (1894) by Aubrey Beardsley, from True History.
Source: National Digital Library of PolandUniversity of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cfafee22-0192-48b9-bcc5-b97d7379ba9f
#horns #masks #harlequins #birds #cloaked-figure #grotesque #decadent-movement #decadence #hybrid-figures #monsters #drawing #art #publicdomain
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Seit 35 Jahren höre ich Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg zu. Heute seinem allerletzten Release. Macht traurig. Danke, Alter
#deathmetal #grotesque #atthegates #RIP -
Design for eight initial keys (ca. 1893–96) by Aubrey Beardsley, from John Lane’s Keynote series.
Source: National Digital Library of PolandUniversity of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a34d5317-97f8-4f23-90b8-66b93236092a
#keys #letters #grotesque #decadent-movement #decadence #drawing #art #publicdomain
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Helmet with grotesque mask-visor, Germany, ~1550 AD
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/1969064/helmet-with-grotesque-mask-visor-germany-1550-ad
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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
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"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
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Green Man, a pagan symbol of fertility. Nave Ceiling Boss. Crowland Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire. #Easter #grotesque #monstrous
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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
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"A baroque grotesque #mascaron from the bell tower of Santa Maria Formosa church in Venezia." --- Carl Julius Salomonsen (1919) De nyeste Kunstretninger og smitsomme Sindslidelser. #Venice #grotesque #art #architecture #renaissance #Italy
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"a delight in the contemplation of bestial vice, and the expression of low sarcasm, which is, I believe, the most hopeless state into which the human mind can fall" --- Santa Maria Formosa, Venice. --- Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 3. #grotesque #art #architecture #renaissance #Italy
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Of a Neophyte and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel (1893) by Aubrey Beardsley, from The Pall Mall Magazine.
Source: National Digital Library of PolandUniversity of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/485a2c76-fe14-4bf2-ba98-4ef7337e2ad5
#candles #feathers #black-magic #grotesque #decadent-movement #decadence #occult #drawing #candlesticks #capes #art #publicdomain
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But no group received more attention than the #US #military. #Trump handed out two Purple Hearts (one posthumously), a Legion of Merit, & not one, but two Congressional Medals of Honor. Military awards that should have been treated with dignity & respect were placed on men like prizes, including a moment when Trump’s co-host, the First Lady, put one of the Medals of Honor around the neck of a 100-year-old fighter pilot.
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To start the week, a trio of Grotesques by Von Bolten, 17th Century. #weird #grotesque #weirdart #artsky #17thCentury
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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
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Illustration by Christoph Jamnitzer, from Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610).
Source: Rijksmuseum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b93bb772-e512-4a9b-9f84-ea06faeb88f8
#grotesques #grotesque #human-animal-hybrid #flowers #ornament #design #art #publicdomain
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I honestly don't know how anyone could not love #JohnCusack, especially #MinnieDriver, and the fabulous 80s #soundtrack from #GrossePointBlank, a wonderful #thriller #grotesque made with a lot of love. #Music is not afraid of total failures or total hits. #movies #filmsky
