Illustrator with Weird Style —— What works are mysterious and grotesque in artistic style?

What works are mysterious and grotesque in artistic style? The Return of the Old Woman is one of Durham Matt's most famous tragicomedy masterpieces, and it is also the work that best reflects Durham Matt's grotesque artistic style. This paper analyzes the play from three angles: grotesque language, grotesque characters and grotesque plot, and draws the conclusion that the use of grotesque style has created a wonderful satirical absurd tragicomedy effect in The Return of the Old Lady and made it an immortal classic play.

The playwright Durham Matt is one of the most outstanding writers in Switzerland in the 20th century. He was once called "the most important German dramatist after Brecht" by the famous German writer and critic Walter Jens. He is good at using grotesque artistic style and absurd way of thinking in drama creation, so most of his works are exaggerated and funny, while the characters are the opposite, often full of tragic colors. Based on this feature, Durham Matt created and enriched his unique tragicomedy theory. As he himself said in The Problem of Drama: "It is impossible to write a drama without humor:-Drama is something without laughter. I can't stand such drama. " This is to interpret the content and theme of "sadness" in the form of "happiness", which is essentially a kind of "black humor". Therefore, there is happiness in sadness and sadness in sadness, and sadness and happiness are inseparable. [2] With the success of 1956 tragicomedy "The Return of the Old Woman", the author also gained a worldwide reputation.

The return of the old woman, a tragicomedy in three acts, is the brightest pearl in Durham Matt's many classic plays. Since its premiere, it has been staged all over the world and has been adapted into films, operas and other forms for many times, which has been loved by audiences all over the world. The same is true in China, where translation began in the early 1960s. Since the early 1980s, many directors have put The Old Lady's Return to the Native on the stage of China, which has also aroused strong repercussions. It is no exaggeration to say that Durham Matt is the most popular dramatist among contemporary European dramatists in China. This work caused a sensation in the world of drama, and also established Durham Matt's position in the history of contemporary drama. It can be said that Durham Matt has given this work too many indescribable things in art: sin and revenge, money and morality, humiliation and dignity, and so on. Many meanings can even be condensed into the specific word "the old woman returns home".

The playwright Durham Matt is one of the most outstanding writers in Switzerland in the 20th century. He was once called "the most important German dramatist after Brecht" by the famous German writer and critic Walter Jens. He is good at using grotesque artistic style and absurd way of thinking in drama creation, so most of his works are exaggerated and funny, while the characters are the opposite, often full of tragic colors. Based on this feature, Durham Matt created and enriched his unique tragicomedy theory. As he himself said in The Problem of Drama: "It is impossible to write a drama without humor:-Drama is something without laughter. I can't stand such drama. " This is to interpret the content and theme of "sadness" in the form of "happiness", which is essentially a kind of "black humor". Therefore, there is happiness in sadness and sadness in sadness, and sadness and happiness are inseparable. With the success of 1956 tragicomedy "The Return of the Old Lady", the author also gained a worldwide reputation.

Calligraphy and Painting | Who is Alice: Alice in Wonderland manuscript illustrations Few literary books have never been out of print since the first edition of 1865 Alice in Wonderland. In the past century, the fantasy world written by LewisCarrol has been known for generations: Alice, a little girl, jumped into a rabbit hole, her body changed wonderfully, she met dazzling characters, and experienced an unusual fantastic adventure in the underground world. What really connects this story with the readers is the illustrations with great personality in the story. These illustrations guide our imagination through the rabbit hole and follow Alice into the strange underground world. Carol, the author, took her friend's three little daughters boating on the river on a summer afternoon. In order to amuse the children, he made up these stories for them. One of her daughters, AliceLidell, was fascinated by these stories and insisted that he write them down. In the second year, Carol finished the creation of these stories and gave the story manuscript to Alice as a Christmas gift, entitled "A Christmas Gift for Dear Children: Commemorating a Summer Day". Carol's manuscript was returned to the British Library after World War II. When this manuscript first appeared in public view, many people were surprised to find that Carol not only wrote these stories by hand, but also attached 37 hand-painted illustrations, but these illustrations were never published. In Carol's illustrations, Alice is portrayed as reserved, melancholy, lonely and alienated, which is the opposite of a little girl's usual vigorous and lively state. At the end of the book, he sketched a portrait of her little friend Alice in real life (below 1). However, before giving her the book, Carol covered the hand-painted portrait with photos (Figure 2 below). He may not be satisfied with his painting. When Carol decided to publish these stories into a book, he probably thought that his illustration skills were not good enough, so he did not use the illustrations in the manuscript, but hired the famous political illustrator SirJohnTenniel to create illustrations for the book. Sir John Tenniel's illustration style is grotesque, grotesque, with thick lines and even gloomy. Why did the author choose this satirical cartoon to depict a group of children's books? We don't know. At the beginning of the 20th century, after the copyright expired, different styles of Alice appeared. Some illustrators choose more gloomy materials and heavy interpretations than John Tenniel, such as the following illustration of Arthur Rackham 1907. On the other hand, some people present this children's book in a relatively traditional illustration style. The characters and backgrounds in the book all adopt a sweet and gentle style, which is closer to children's aesthetics. I was also lucky enough to find Carol's diary that day, which was cursive and different from what was printed in the manuscript. On that day, he recorded some strange fairy tales that he told Alice and her sisters. This is Alice in Wonderland. This book is an endless mystery to me, and so is its author, Carol, who has a complicated personality. We'll tell this story later. What works are mysterious and grotesque in artistic style? Art is a common word in the design industry. For the word art, it covers a wide range. Art includes many industries, such as photography. Film and television. Design. Painting. Literature. Movies and so on. Even for some sub-sectors, such as clothing and interior decoration. Jewelry design, packaging design, binding design. There are also some branches of design, that is, some branches of art, such as performance art, installation art, graffiti art and so on. Therefore, if it is only a work from a certain industry, it is not representative. Moreover, artistic style refers to artists, their personal behaviors, personal works, lifestyles, living habits and personalities. And all kinds of personal stories. There are many unique artists who have their own distinctive features. This is not worth it, just from the design point of view. From the perspective of literature and film, artistic style is relatively common. For example, some literary works have their own unique artistic style. Like Four Great Classical Novels. They must be simple. Expose social reality and reflect various social problems. There are also some mysterious and grotesque artistic styles, such as Pu Songling's serialization. Pu Songling used mystery and grotesque, and used ghosts and gods. It seems that writing ghosts is actually a reflection of the current social situation. Most ghosts in his works are not bad in texture, in many cases. All the ghosts and gods in his works are kind. On the contrary, in his works. Play the villain, but live out the human. This can obviously satirize the society at that time, the corruption of officials and the imperfection of the political system. Various social phenomena caused by this. People don't say their names, and life is in hot water. Officials collude with each other, frame each other behind their backs and so on. So the artistic style is shown. Not only in literary works. It also lies in various works, such as clothing. Yayoi Kusama's polka dots are eye-catching. She will use various forms, through various points. Give people a different feeling in a mysterious and grotesque style. what do you think?