The article analyzes the transformation of artistic consciousness majority Ukrainian artists in conditions Putin’s war Ukraine. It is traced how barbarism orcs gave rise to psychological and creative resistance environment. logic grotesque-reductive series works by V. Kravets analyzed. method artist’s work with wide use meaningful metaphors shown. As a critic brutality enemy army, author drawin...

Three decades ago Thompson (1980) discovered what is now a classic visual demonstration in psychology: that inverting the eyes and mouth of Margaret Thatcher’s face passes largely unnoticed when the face is presented upside-down, even though the face appears grotesque in the upright orientation. Recently, Psalta et al. (2014) used fMRI to identify the neural basis of the Thatcher illusion and f...

In the artistic world of Anton Chekhov’s vaudeville, we observe collision two worlds: old and new. The first is a space officials, bureaucracy “official truthˮ. This countered by an unpredictable hilarious absurdity buffoonery. article discusses concept updating outdated form life, which part unique poetics absurd Chekhov. main technique grotesque, presented on pages plays in both modernist ver...

We describe a novel face distortion effect resulting from the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. When cycling through the faces on a computer screen, each face seems to become a caricature of itself and some faces appear highly deformed, even grotesque. The degree of distortion is greatest for faces that deviate from the others in the set on a particular dimension (eg if a person has...