Grotesques

thumb|upright=0.9|Grotesque studies, Michelangelo. Grotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes an audience feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity.

thumb|Gargoyles of Notre-Dame de Paris thumb|Dragon-headed gargoyle of the Tallinn Town Hall, [[Estonia]] thumb|Gargoyle of the Vasa Chapel at Wawel in [[Kraków, Poland]]

sculpture motif

fantastic or mythical figure used as architectural element

thumb|right|A representation of a Bhoma head guarding the top of the portal to a Balinese temple in Singapadu.

a fantasy creature inspired by the architectural Gargoyle element