Art Mask Design Using Grotesque Characteristics in Modern Art

Abstract

Art in the fast-changing modern era creates various works through organic combinations without any clear distinction. Art mask, a territory of art expressed by using masks that resemble a human face, the representation of the grotesque fusion design implemented by the art mask present various senses and thinking skills to modern people who expect new things against the existing forms. Therefore, the characteristics of fear, dislike, playfulness, and atypia in Grotesque can open up to a new making method in a comprehensive and innovative way. By incorporating the characteristics of Grotesque paintings that have become popular in modern art, this study expressed demonism by expressing the heterogeneous appearance of a sleeping woman and in a smooth line and geometric way in the form of a human face in the work expressed in art mask which is based on “Nightmare” by John Henry Pujelly in Work I, the bizarre image of the extremely exaggerated size of the eyes was embodied in a deformed form by not expressing the nose with the motif of “Strange Balloon-like Eyes Traveling to Infinite” by Odilong Le Dong in Work II, the tears in both eyes on the mask represented a physically damaged body, and used various lines to express disgust. Work III expressed the playfulness of infantile grotesque like clowns by using elements of satire in “conspiracy” by James Ansore as a motif. The Work IV expressed the time of hopelessness without life by expressing abnormally abhorrent and unnatural things and the distorted cravings of life in fear as skeletons that are abnormally disgusting and unnatural by using “Release of the Fifth Seal of John's Apocalypse” by El Greco as a motif. The conflicting emotions were expressed by gradating the skull's eyes with black paint, and was reinterpreted as a dream and hope using various colors of color. As a result of this study, it was identified that paintings that expressed the characteristics of grotesque through art mask production can present unlimited imagination and a variety of topics to artists in the makeup field. This study is expected to be used as a basic data for a follow-up study on art mask design in the future and will help to develop art mask designs.