The Grotesque
The
Grotesque....no, we're not referring to German Sheppards humping
strung out former Prom Queens....we are talking about one of the
influential art movements that drips from the candlesticks within
Lord's Rendezvous.
Full of disrespectful wit, The Grotesque was
a movement that gained importance in German-speaking countries
as a novel aesthetic approach in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The Grotesque was a movement where subversive power
and wit were inherent elements. Among the artists who were key
to the movement were Arnold Böcklin, Lovis Corinth, Franz
von Stuck, Max Klinger, Emil Nolde, Alfred Kubin, and Paul Klee.
They used distortion and blending to create a "topsy-turvy
world", a counterweight to the familiar order of things.
In Munich the grotesque first flowered around
1900. Important artists like Paul Kleen and Thomas Theodor Heine
lived and worked in Munich.
The Grotesque can only truly be realized when
one is ankle deep in the excrement of its psyche - forging through
the fetid waters of its understanding - stumbling over the perverse
and bumping into the absurd
- only to find what looked like a reason from afar is actually
a pile of placentas with a "Cuba" flag perched at the
pinnacle.
The Grotesque is ever forming, ever changing,
and ever leaping into the existential dimensions we normally reserve
for science. The Grotesque is the dark energy, the anti-gravity
which maintains celestial orbit while distorting a precious face
into a cyst of pubic hair and teeth which resembles the silhouette
of your mother, whom you have loved deeply since you became conscious
of your diaper changing.
The Grotesque is, at one moment, a blend of
animalist and human qualities and attributes designed to give
a deeper look into the subjects psyche and in the next is a group
of men surrounding a table in a Swiss bar placing a paper knife
into a French dictionary - only to come out with Dada. Anti World
War 1 - believing in no deity next to one's own feces - the Grotesque
can transform any normal household into a shrine to diphtheria,
human Pamplona virus or Peruvian
Syphilis.
Accept the Grotesque as the roots of your being
and dive into Lord's Rendezvous like the sweet feces that is and
find your grotesque, just make sure to wear brown pants.
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