3200 x 2514 px | 27,1 x 21,3 cm | 10,7 x 8,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
27 novembre 2019
Informations supplémentaires:
What is one to make of the art of James Ensor? “Reason and nature are the enemy of the artist, ” he once wrote and, true to his word, his paintings and etchings float free from these traditional moorings of art. It means that, like Goya and William Blake, his work – filled with masks, skeletons and cacophony – is unmistakable, always compelling and often utterly mystifying. It means too that he can be seen as, among other things, a joker, a Symbolist, an Expressionist, a proto-Surrealist, a utopian, a satirist and perhaps even suffering from mental illness (one of his etchings is a self-portrait showing him urinating against a wall on which is scrawled “Ensor est un fou” – “Ensor is a madman”) - Michael Prodger
