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also grotesquery
as in grotesque
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie
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Crystallizing the moment of impact, Barney’s painting combines slaughterhouse grotesquerie with precise horizontal lines reminiscent of Agnes Martin’s work.
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Lillian Davies, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Dreamy forests and bright angels curdle and mutate into digital grotesquerie, a Spam Folder of faceless creatures and shock shlock.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2025
And his finest work, the 1990 television soap opera Twin Peaks, could also be considered a sensitive, comedic Rorschach test, given its all-American grotesqueries — the definition of his artistic expression.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
Strauss’s roguish grotesqueries were beautifully played, with warm coziness to the thicket of intertwining lines in the winds.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Lillian Davies, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Dreamy forests and bright angels curdle and mutate into digital grotesquerie, a Spam Folder of faceless creatures and shock shlock.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2025
And his finest work, the 1990 television soap opera Twin Peaks, could also be considered a sensitive, comedic Rorschach test, given its all-American grotesqueries — the definition of his artistic expression.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
Strauss’s roguish grotesqueries were beautifully played, with warm coziness to the thicket of intertwining lines in the winds.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grotesquerie
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