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Etching has all the bravura of needlepoint. It helps to be a recluse to master etching. One who was, and did, is James Sydney Ensor, Belgium's premier fantasist of the 20th century, who spent only three of his 89 years of life away from the seaport town of Ostend...
...Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given to hallucinations. By night, "the cracks in the peeling walls became faces and fantastic shapes." By day, he imagined raging storms racing across the flat meadowland near the North...
Belgian Painter James Ensor is against reason; see ART, Grim Reaper...
...Reason," said the Belgian painter James Ensor, "is the enemy of art. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling." Ensor himself never ran the risk: in the 89 years he lived, he gave to the world a strange and eerie legacy that sometimes seemed to be the work of a madman. But though he shocked his contemporaries, he ranks today as the greatest Belgian painter of modern times. This week a good sampling of his work went on display at Manhattan's World House Galleries, and a handsome new book, James Ensor, by Paul Haesaerts (Abrams...
...world of fiends and skeletons, of ghoulish clowns and grinning, beak-nosed humans at their most frighteningly ridiculous. He became obsessed by carnival masks, used them, not to disguise mankind, but to highlight its folly. His famous The Entry of Christ into Brussels-with himself as Christ-is Ensor at his most devastating. Here, surrounding Christ, is a seething horde of pomposity-soldiers, millionaires, judges, art critics-in a word, the Enemy...