Grotesque Art

Dine’s deft draftsmanship tempers the grotesque possibilities of this inanimate hirsutism, while the delicate, soft quality of dry point lines enhances the intimate nature of these p...

With their visors forged and embossed as humorous or grotesque human masks, such helmets were often worn in tournaments held during the exuberant pre-Lenten (Shrovetide) festivals, c...

This striking untitled print by celebrated Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017) presents a vivid parade of distorted and expressionistic figures rendered in his signature grot...

Bacon's paintings are marked by intense color palettes and blurred, almost grotesque portrayals of his subjects, which include portraits, self-portraits, and abstracted, sometimes ni...

"Politics" was done as a protest against Ronald Reagan at the outset of his second term in office, with close up text like "Money", "Power" and "Cuba" alluding to some of his failed ...

His activity as an engraver shaped a taste for formal synthesis, linear tension, and, at times, a near-grotesque expressiveness. These elements converge in this painting: the monume...

Sherman’s images range from the beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup, and wigs to build her characters and has, in recent years, embraced digit...

Sherman’s images range from the beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup, and wigs to build her characters and has, in recent years, embraced digit...

Sherman’s images range from the beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup, and wigs to build her characters and has, in recent years, embraced digit...

They oscillate between the comic and the cryptic, the grotesque and the poetic—drawing the viewer into a visual narrative that unfolds without words.

They oscillate between the comic and the cryptic, the grotesque and the poetic—drawing the viewer into a visual narrative that unfolds without words.

They oscillate between the comic and the cryptic, the grotesque and the poetic—drawing the viewer into a visual narrative that unfolds without words.

In Ukrainian Cossacks, the artist reimagines historical warriors through his distinctive metaphysical lens — grotesque figures, bold symbolism, rich color, and deep cultural referenc...

The oversized, almost grotesque texture of the cake contrasts with the vulnerable, pale-skinned legs that emerge from its hollow core, clad in white undergarments and ballet flats.

His posters blend biting wit, virtuoso drawing and bold typography; this Munich sheet stages a long table of grotesque profiles and endlessly multiplying arms toasting with beer stei...

The scene is psychedelic, surreal, dreamlike, fantastical, and grotesque. Peter Max is an icon of the psychedelic art movement, celebrated for his vibrant, whimsical, and optimistic...

Orozco selected two heads as symbols of prostitution rather than actual prostitutes. accentuated by the grotesque and obscene, and situated them in a junkyard of oppressive, letha...

The surface of the painting - created by applying and then sanding away layer upon layer of paint to produce a rich patina - reveals the painstaking process by which the work was cre...

Harris, Lyle Ashton and Cindy Sherman. “The Sublime, The Grotesque, The Epic: Lyle Ashton Harris Interviews Cindy Sherman.”

In this dark and hallucinatory scene, the purgatorial becomes grotesque: rather than redemption, there is confinement, decomposition, and memory held captive.

The right side of the painting features a lavish floral arrangement and a classical water fountain with grotesque mask spouts, reinforcing themes of nature’s beauty, nourishment, and...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Inspired by the eloquent realism of Pieter Brueghel the Elder's popular festivals, Louis de Caullery shapes his genre scenes with a subtle blend of grotesque and sophistication that ...

In the traditions of the grotesque and the uncanny, I am interested in the intersections between the familiar and strange, beautiful and repugnant, human and animal, alive and dead.

He returned to Florence for a brief stay, where he collaborated with Alessandro Allori, Ludovico Buti, Giovan Maria Butteri and Ludovico Cigoli on the decoration of the ceilings of t...

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Coughlin's academic and illustrative style ranges from realism to surrealism and grotesque. He works in series producing portraits of literary and musical figures such as Walt Whitma...

At the foot of the picture, Hogarth illustrated the difference between characterisation and caricature by reproducing three character figures from the works of Raphael, and four cari...

Around him, mocking figures lean in—each rendered with individualized, almost grotesque features—enhancing the emotional impact of the scene.

Around the time of the First World War the pottery produced some fine North Devon style of vases with applied dragons, some with two or three twisted handles, also other grotesque an...

Displacing her brother’s notoriety onto her, the image reinvents her as “the Bank Nun,” a grotesque magnet for lingering Romantic-era anxieties about the circulation of paper credit,...

Rosofsky was drawn to doleful and withering themes, such as the individual's loss of power in modern life, fraught male-female relationships, the abuse of power and the absurdity of ...

Hockney’s quirky portrait captures the energy of Bruegel’s engrossing characters and grotesque humor. The Enchantress in her garden (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969 Et...

At the center, a bearded figure representing God holds a triangle with an all-seeing eye, exuding authority. Surrounding him, grotesque evangelists engage in a chaotic spectacle—one ...

His crisp, poignant images show the people of Appalachia in their simple environments, revealing both the heroic and grotesque side to secluded mountain life. Adams photographs his s...

Beardsley’s feelings clearly prelude to the sensitivity of the twentieth century: the comic, the satirical, the playful, the fantasy liberated, the dreamlike, the nightmare, the fear...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

In the foreground, the shape of a woman peers up at a grotesque assemblage that almost seems to crouch to avoid hitting a cavernous ceiling.

This painting uses a series of vignettes or "snapshots" of human couples in various states of health and vigor. The grotesque nature of some of the bodies is juxtaposed in the bright...

His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in h...

His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in h...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

12.5" x 24" Limited Edition Print of 495 Hand Signed by Bob Dylan In an urban world somewhat reminiscent of Marcel Carne’s 1945 film Children of Paradise – part circus, part Edwardi...

His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in h...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

., the poster uses caricature and bold typography to portray Freemasonry as a parasitic force, visually depicting Freemasons as grotesque bedbugs with human heads. Printed on blue p...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

Basilé owns the extraordinary capacity to conciliate opposing ideas like beauty and grotesque, natural and artificial. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy, Europ...

This powerful composition presents a grotesque anthropomorphic wolf, dressed in military regalia, addressing a group of farm animals.

The focused perspective emphasizes the gestural movements of the tree’s splayed branches, bent and curved into grotesque, almost unnatural, positions. Through these exaggerated shape...

Posed like a dancer, the dramatic form is at once tense and grotesque, beautiful and carefree. The tree itself is painted with loose, expressive brushwork to create a tactile surfa...

In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic.

In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic.

INSIDE SCENE - Oil on canvas painting, Eugenio De Blasi, Italy, 2005 Gold leaf gilded wooden grame cm. 90X130 The painting by Eugenio De Blasi is inspired by the work of David Tenier...

Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns amongst other grotesque figures. Signed and dated by artist in front lower right corner.