4 sentences with “grotesque”

Among the creators of the most striking, sometimes beautiful, but sometimes grotesque images associated with modernism were the Austrian Expressionists.

In many cases, European imperial powers reacted violently to their colonial subjects' demands for independent rule, resulting in both bloodshed and grotesque human rights violations.

In each case, the artist Gustav Klimt created terrifying images in which the nominal subject matter was somehow present, but was overshadowed by the grotesque depiction of how it was carried out or how its subject matter was not adequately addressed.

Stalin relied on the NKVD (Russian secret police) to carry out the purges, targeting the better-off peasants known as kulaks, then the old Bolsheviks (who had participated in the revolution itself), army officers, middle-ranking members of the Communist party and, finally, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens caught up in the grotesque machinery of accusation and punishment that plagued the country in the second half of the 1930s.