Dec 5, 2016 - Explore artsdot's board "James Ensor", followed by 440 people on Pinterest. Michael Prodger searches for the man behind these intriguing images. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor found inspiration for his masks in his family‘s souvenir shops, in the Ostend carnival processions and in the Bal du Rat Mort. The Scandalized Masks (1883, oil on canvas, Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium) is the first work of James Ensor in which the mask thematic appears, albeit without the symbolic dimension that his later mask paintings would receive.

James Ensor’s Masks Confronting Death exemplifies his unique, macabre style of painting which set him apart from the painting trends of the early twentieth century and which influenced many artists after him.In this article, Singulart takes a closer look at Ensor’s life and artistic career and analyses the themes and styles present in his work Masks Confronting Death. Aug 11, 2018 - Explore rogerwilliamson's board "James Ensor" on Pinterest. James Ensor - Masks Looking at a Tortoise, 1894 - Image via bp.com The Uncompromising Visuals of James Ensor. Often deemed as too radical and extreme in both subject matter and method by his contemporaries, James Ensor was the master of using satire veiled in a colorful cloth that toyed with the viewers' minds on many levels. Museums, collectors and enthusiasts from all over the world are fascinated by his groundbreaking art. The Belgian artist James Ensor painted life through the lens of the carnival, creating unsettling and often satirical works. JAMES ENSOR, MY SKELTONISED PORTRAIT, 1889. James Sidney Ensor was born in Belgium in 1860. Like Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch, James Ensor (1860–1949) was the avant-garde painter in northern Europe and harbinger of the German Expressionists and French Surrealists. JAMES ENSOR, SQUELETTE ARRÊTANT MASQUES.ESTIMATE: €1,000,000—1,500,000. His father James Frederic Ensor and mother Maria Catherina Haegheman owned a souvenir shop in the tourist town of Ostend, selling carnival novelties and seaside trinkets.
Because of its complexity, the Somerton sequence will be approached through the long tradition of Venice carnivals as well by consulting the works of Belgian artist James Ensor who, like Kubrick, exploits mask as an instrument of cynical unmasking of the humankind. See more ideas about Ostend, Modern art, Art. James Ensor: A man of many masks By Michael Prodger Published 17 October 2016.
Masks, both diabolic and caricaturesque, are one of the principal motifs found throughout the entire artistic output of the Belgian painter James Ensor. James Ensor Masks Confronting Death 1888 On view; MoMA, Floor 5, 501 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries; A group of masked figures confronts the figure of Death, centrally situated and draped in white, a color that infiltrates the entire picture. James Ensor ‘These masks are ghostly, disturbing, they have every characteristic of life, the same frightened impression that is also sensed in a waxwork museum. Long before the term became a fashionable cliché, Ensor was certainly a game changer. The shop, full of innovative motifs and objects, inspired Ensor throughout his … Around the Ensor-skeleton, seven colourful masks evolve in a symbiotic relationship while at the same time playing a mysterious masquerade. As grotesque as it is dramatic, the scene of Squelette arrêtant masques reaches an unprecedented level of starkness, legibility and even realism.Beneath a pink and blue maelstrom, this work is one of the most striking paintings from the period when Ensor’s creative power had reached a decisive stage. James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. Literature; Literature Tricot 2009 569 Other works by James Ensor. The Ensor Collection of KMSKA in Ostend James Ensor is known worldwide. See more ideas about James, Painting, Ostend.