At first Grotesque means strange, mysterious disgusting and describe in weird shapes. Also used in Halloween masks. In art Grotesque uses for performance and literature. Sometimes Grotesque refers to something that simultaneously invokes in an audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as sympathetic pity. In art, Grotesques are make as small and fantastic human and animal figures. They usually set out in a symmetrical pattern around some form of architectual framework.
About Gargoyle.
Gargoyle is a carved or another form of Grotesque. This was designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of buildings. Most of them used to multiple it on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof. So they are built on the walls. The design of the Gargoyle was some animals, which were unknown in the places.
very informative with lots of pictures and a focus on the difference between gargoyles and grotesques! i like this a lot, your whole blog is very spunky
ReplyDeleteWow, the grotesques you used are beautiful and unique- I haven't seen anything like this on other people's blogs.
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