A few words about "Grotesque" Is it Greek inspired? Yes and no.
The original meaning of 'Grotesque" was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art (which directly derived from ancient Greek art) rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century. Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. Although there is an immense variety of motifs and figures in Grotesque style, the three main tropes of the grotesque are doubleness, hybridity and metamorphosis. During Renaissance, artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions. In the 17th and 18th centuries the grotesque encompasses a wide field of teratology (science of monsters) and artistic experimentation.
Below are a few examples of Grotesque art which is the main source of inspiration for the deck.
However, as an artist I try to bring "Grotesque" to my taste and make a deck which will be at the same time strange and beautiful.
