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| | James Ensor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | James Sidney Ensor, Baron Ensor (April 13, 1860–November 19, 1949), was a Belgian painter whose unique portrayals of grotesque humanity made him a principal precursor of 20th-century expressionism and surrealism. | | | His work had an important influence on 20th-century painting, his lurid subject matter paving the way for surrealism and Dada, and his techniques — particularly his brushwork and his sense of color — leading directly to expressionism. | | | In 1995, the state of Belgium recognized Ensor's achievements by dedicating the 100-franc (~ 2.5 EUR) bill to him and his work, which of course disappeared again in 2002 when the Euro replaced the Belgian franc. |
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| | James Ensor Biography / Biography of James Ensor Biography Biography |
| | Ensor's sole contact with the world around him was through the medium of his art, which reflected the imagery of his eccentric, morose broodings. | | | Probably Ensor's unique use of Christian imagery rather than his unorthodox painting technique with its impasto surfaces, slashing brushstrokes, and depersonalized images caused his works to be disclaimed by academic and "free" artists as well as by critics. | | | The Belgian painter and graphic artist James Ensor (1860-1949) populated his works with masks, skeletons, and grotesque images of humanity. |
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| | James Ensor |
| | Het werk van James Ensor: 'Christus bedaart de storm' was werkelijk een kosmische revelatie, een soort geïriseerde wervelstorm, een beetje zoals enkele werken van Turner... | | | Het is de familie Lambotte die Ensor in 1906 een Harmonium Cadeau doet, waarop hij de Muziek componeert bij het Pantomime-ballet La gamme d'amour (de Liefdegamma), dat een aantal keren uitgevoerd zal worden en eerst in 1929 met Litho's geïllustreerd zal uitgegeven worden. | | | James Ensor is medestichter van DE avantgardistische Groep “Les Vingt". |
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http://www.kunstbus.nl/verklaringen/james+ensor.html
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| | BBC - h2g2 - James Sydney Ensor - the Artist |
| | James Sydney Ensor is one of the most surprising artists of the 19th Century. | | | Ensor never married, though he did have close relationships with lady friends, and his later life was serene and convivial, belying the sombre themes of his early works. | | | Ensor became successful, and with success began his artistic decline. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A260452
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| | James Ensor |
| | Ensor was completely isolated in the hallucinatory world of his creation, an isolation that is revealed in his portrayal of the human figure behind a mask, which revealed all of his baser and more destructive aspects. | | | A generation later the Surrealists would discover many things in his art including a controlled violence, and the ability to express the inexpressible in forms experienced in the dream-like, or comatose state of the subconscious; and thus he would be declared a precursor to their own work. | | | The mysteries of the sea were to continue to influence Ensor's art but his conceptions of the world around him would not remain so pleasant. |
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http://www.art-in-print.com/artists/James_Ensor.html
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| | American Fundamentalists by Joel Pelletier |
| | Ensor's obsessions, which all artist's need in order to create, included death and immortality, masks and hats, and (as he got more dissapointed with the reaction to his art) persecution and the ridiculing of power. | | | Except for three years studying history and religious painting at the Brussels academy, James Ensor, a Belgian painter, printmaker, and draftsman, lived in Ostend, Belgium, all his life. | | | In the mid-1880s, Ensor suffered from an ulcer and from a personal crisis: his family forbade him to marry the woman he loved. |
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| | Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: Spring 2002 |
| | Ensor's first drawings were created mainly in charcoal and document both the artist's training at the Brussels Academy of Fine Art (1877-80) and his early adherence to the tenets of both academic art and its rival, realism. | | | Ensor exhibited the reworked version of the drawing at Les XX in 1886 to great acclaim. | | | Although Ensor's etchings formed part of a small exhibition two years ago at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a group of his hand-colored etchings were shown last year at Shepherd Gallery, also in New York, there have been no major retrospectives devoted to his drawings in the United States until now. |
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| | TVM 2nd Floor: 19th C. Post-Impressionism -- James Sydney Ensor |
| | In 1898, Ensor has his first one man show in Paris at "Salon des Cent" and in the following year there is a showing of his work in Ostend. | | | Ensor feeling completely isolated attempts to sell his studio and all its contents for 8,500 francs, but no one is willing to buy. | | | About this same time, Ensor developed a hatred of the crowd, the masses who accepted authority and had no taste, and it became a major theme expressed in his art. |
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| | Art Critic London |
| | Ensor saw in his father's country an art of revolt and subversion. | | | Many of the early pictures in the Barbican Art Gallery's James Ensor (1860-1949): Theatre of Masks show the flat where the family lived, its massive furniture, heavy curtains and deep patterned carpets the epitome of stifling respectability. | | | Though he painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits, at bottom Ensor's best work is highly political - and more than any other genre political painting was rendered irrelevant by photography. |
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http://www.theartnewspaper.com/artcritic/level1/reviewarchive/1997/sep_24_1997_main.html
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| | Polish culture: James Ensor - "Prints and Paintings", exhibition |
| | James Ensor (1860-1949), a precursor of Symbolism and Expressionism, was one of the world's most exceptional artists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. | | | As depicted by Ensor, schooners and rowboats rocking on the waves and masts as dense as forests in port exude peace and are charming for their simplicity. | | | The artist's highly intriguing works were impressive for his changeable, virtuoso style. |
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http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/wy_wy_ensor_mck
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| | WEBORGERS -The Belgian Painters |
| | James Ensor is certainly one of the precursors of the Modern Art in painting. | | | Ensor was never well accepted as painter during his life, due to his very critical way of depicting social life and his contemporaries in his drawings. | | | This painter cannot be dissociated from his hometown Ostende, city on the shore of the North Sea, very famous "tourist spot" at the end of the 19th Century, eclectic and cosmopolitan. |
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| | James Ensor: The Banquet of the Starved (67.187.68) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of ... |
| | The Belgian artist James Ensor saw himself as the modern interpreter of the type of nightmare fantasies painted by the fifteenth-century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. | | | Ensor spent his entire life in Ostend, Belgium, a famous nineteenth-century seaside resort whose carnival atmosphere turned dark and sinister in his paintings. | | | Ensor's natural predilection for the macabre had a firm basis in reality when he painted The Banquet of the Starved in 1915. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/11/euwl/hod_67.187.68.htm
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| | James Ensor |
| | While the other members of that aspiring Flemish vanguard are long forgotten, Ensor's legend looms larger and larger, and the descendants of the Belgian bourgeois are regretting that their forbears had not invested in some of Ensor's "outlandish and offensive" works of art. | | | These parades and the masks were to figure prominently in Ensor's work, notably his monumental painting, Christ Entering into Brussels, monumental not only for its size but for its merciless depiction of the cruelty, vanity, hypocrisy and fatuousness which the artist perceived all around him in mid-19th-century Belgian society. | | | Besides his paintings, Ensor's carbon drawings like My Mother or Sloth (1888), his gouache works like The Dangerous Cooks, etchings like Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals,(1896) and drypoints like Peculiar Insects (1886), in which he portrays himself as a beetle, established Ensor as a prime precursor of 20th-century expressionism, surrealism and Dada. |
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http://www.worldprintmakers.com/masters/ensor/ensor.htm
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| | ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: James Ensor |
| | The form and content of his work became so shockingly avant-garde that he was excluded from the group of independent artists with whom he had once exhibited. | | | Ensor is now considered an important turn of the century artist. | | | The festivities and the store's curious left a permanent mark upon Ensor's imagination and eventually became important motifs in his art. |
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http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/identity/ensor2.html
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| | TASCHEN Books: All Titles - All Titles - Ensor - Facts |
| | An expressionist before the term was coined, Ensor used the iconography of masks and skeletons to point up the essential horrors of life, and often underwrote his images with a sardonic gallows humour. | | | A genuine maverick in the way that so many Belgian artists are (lest we forget Magritte), James Ensor can claim a dark and distinctive place in the art histories of the last hundred years. | | | It was never a sure thing that James Ensor, the great Belgian painter of macabre and ghoulish scenes, would become a nationally revered figure. |
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http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/all_topics/all/facts/01725.htm
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| | Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (Getty Museum) |
| | In response to the French pointillist style that depicted bland, orderly bourgeoisie with tiny, uniform strokes of paint, Ensor used palette knives, spatulas, and both ends of his brush to put down patches of colors with expressive freedom. | | | After rejection by Les XX, the artists' association that Ensor had helped to found, the painting was not exhibited publicly until 1929. | | | Ensor displayed Christ's Entry prominently in his home and studio throughout his life. |
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http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o932.html
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| | James Ensor (1860 - 1949) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews |
| | Ensor’s focus on morbid subjects such as skulls and corpses in his early work incited criticism from the public. | | | Although his paintings became more traditional later in his life, Ensor is noted for those earlier paintings because of their significance in the transition from Symbolism to Surrealism. | | | James Ensor - L'Assassinat (The Assassination) 1888 etching with gouache The Museum of Modern Art Belgian |
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| | James Ensor |
| | The ferocious sarcasm of his paintings, drawings and prints is, however, balanced by the pathos of his tragic representations of a Christ who figures as the artist's alter ego... | | | He was awarded the title of Baron, but his belated success had an unexpected consequence: Ensor's inspiration ran dry and the man survived the artist. | | | "In Ensor's paintings, Christ's persecutors wear the features of the critics who attacked his work - names saved from oblivion only by the artist's resentment. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor |
| | Incorporating elements of satire, caricature, masquerade, and the grotesque, Ensor was a sharp observer of his social and political milieu and a skilled controversialist. | | | Early in his career, Belgian painter James Ensor (1860-1949) broke away from Impressionism, rejecting its prettiness in favor of an original, highly dramatic style. | | | Catherine de Zegher is executive director of the Drawing Center in New York City and cocurator (with Robert Hoozee) of the exhibition "Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor." |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816640122
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| | James Ensor 1860—1949, Theatre of Masks |
| | The Belgian painter and engraver James Ensor was a major pioneer of Expressionism. | | | Known primarily as a painter of masks, he began by painting landscapes, seascapes, interiors and still-lifes of his hometown in Ostend. | | | The book is illustrated with examples of Ensor’s most important works and includes essays by leading scholars from Britain, Belgium and the United States (Susan Canning, Robert Hoozee, Timothy Hyman and Xavier Tricot), as well as extracts from writings by Ensor himself. |
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| | Ensor kept The Entry of Christ into Brussels with him throughout his life, and as with many of his paintings, he made a number of alterations to it. | | | His most famous picture, The Entry of Christ into Brussels of 1888, was recently sold to the Getty Art Museum in Malibu; previously it had been on a long term loan to the City Art Museum in his home town of Ostend. | | | The Enrty of Christ into Brussels is a very large painting, in bright, even garish colors, painted in a deliberately crude style. |
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| | With these three purposes the James Ensor Archief supports the research and study of the artist, of the late XIXth and early XXth century. | | | The comprehensive documentation of the James Ensor Archief is at the disposal for documenting and expertising artworks, for writing articles and books. | | | It wishes to extend the interest and at least stimulate towards a first contact with the multileveled artworks of this complex artist. |
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| | ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: James Ensor |
| | Look at the photograph of Ensor's sister Mariette and her fiancé Tan. | | | The racism depicted in James Ensor's painting happened almost 100 years ago, yet racism still exists all over the world. | | | Did Ensor paint them to look as they actually appear? |
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| | JAMES ENSOR Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography |
| | JAMES ENSOR Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography | | | Check all ENSOR JAMES art market information since 1987 | | | More details, updated results and all prices at art auction for JAMES ENSOR, biography, classifieds and marketplace |
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| | Galaxy Directory: Ensor, James < Masters < Artists < Painting < Visual Arts < Arts < Humanities |
| | Meeting James Ensor, Belgium's famous painter - a tour of the house and grave of the Ostend artist... | | | MIA About the Art Intrigue depicts the harassment of the artist's sister Mariette and her Chinese fiance by the villagers of Ostend, Belgium. | | | Galaxy Directory: Ensor, James < Masters < Artists < Painting < Visual Arts < Arts < Humanities |
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| | James Ensor / Coin de Rue / unknown |
| | This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world. | | | James Ensor / Coin de Rue / unknown |
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| | Books: Ensor, James - Industrial-Revolution.com - Reviews |
| | James Ensor, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde: An exhibition | | | Ensor et les "XX" à la côte: Blankenberge et la collection Henri van Cutsem (Monographies de l'art moderne) | | | Visionarios: James Ensor, Max Klinger, Odilon Redon, Félicien Rops : Museu de Belles Arts de València, 7-X/29-XI, 1998 |
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| | Crucifixion Old Barns James Ensor William Gedney |
| | On one of the walls hung a portrait in dark tones reminiscent of Courbet, a work of Ensor's early period. | | | On the table at Ensor's side stood his three last paintings. | | | I nodded to him soothingly and said quickly to Ensor, for I felt that I was tiring him, "But why did you paint Christ in your painting of the entry into Brussels? |
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| | Art Journal: James Ensor's 'Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889': technical analysis, restoration and ... |
| | While the painting has been hailed as a piece of modernist art, it actually uses compositional devices, underdrawing and a color palette that is taught in traditional painting schools. | | | In addition, the group of faces in the foreground has been recognized as caricatures of Ensor's contemporaries, including the writer Marquis de Sade. | | | Restoration work on James Ensor's painting 'Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889' revealed the traditional methods Ensor employed in making the work. |
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| | James Ensor |
| | View available works of art, prices and exhibitions by the artist James Ensor in galleries worldwide. | | | Market Alert: Receive email updates when artworks by James Ensor are offered for sale in Galleries and Auction Houses worldwide. | | | To see if this artist's biography is in the Grove Dictionary of Art on artnet.com, click here. |
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| | Meeting James Ensor Ensor Museum |
| | This is the actual house where James Ensor lived with his parents and sister (and of course, the torments of Christ). | | | For an entrance fee of 50 belgium francs you can explore the three floors which he used as his home and studio. | | | James Ensor inherrited it in 1917, and although he closed the shop he left the curious objects untouched as an inspiration for his work. |
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| | Find all your favorite Still Life with Masks posters, art prints and framed art at Barewalls.com, the Web's leading art retailer. | | | Find all your favorite Strange Mask posters, art prints and framed art at Printfinders.com, the Web's leading art retailer. | | | Still Life With Masks, Framed Art Print By James Ensor... |
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| | 'I'm Mad, I'm Foolish, I'm Nasty` |
| | The influence on his imagery and color of the spectacular shells and the exotic masks and grotesques sold in his parents' and uncle's souvenir shops in his native Ostend is suggested in the film, as is the atmospheric protean presence of the sea. | | | We are left to speculate on the rôle of his dominating mother, and of his dissolute father who died when the artist was a young man. Death, and a strangely whimsical eroticism, were Ensor's recurrent preoccupations. | | | approaches Ensor's work as he might have approached the subject himself... |
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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Ensor, James |
| | Ensor’s most memorable and influential work was almost exclusively produced before 1900, but he was largely unrecognized before the 1920s in his own country. | | | All the artists of the Cobra group saw him as a master. | | | No single label adequately describes the visionary work produced by Ensor between 1880 and 1900, his most productive period. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - James Ensor |
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| | Ensor, James, Baron -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | After a youthful infatuation with the art of Rembrandt and Rubens, he adopted the vivacious brushstroke of the French Impressionists. | | | Belgian painter and printmaker whose works are known for their bizarre fantasy and sardonic social commentary. | | | Ensor was an acknowledged master by the time he was 20 years old. |
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| | Ensor, James Sidney, Baron Ensor |
| | He studied at the academy in Brussels, and first painted dark landscapes and seascapes, but in the 1880s quickly developed a richness of colour and a macabre quality of imagination in which he has been compared with his Flemish forerunners Brueghel and Bosch. | | | Ensor was the son of an English father and a Flemish mother, and a British subject until 1930, when he became a Belgian. |
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| | The superhuman crew (painting by James Ensor; lyric by Bob Dylan; edited by John Harris; ISBN: 0892365528; 65% match) | | | spectacle -- Ensor and the Belgian art world -- Unholy alliances: the | | | James Ensor 1860-1949 (edited by Carol Brown; with texts by Susan M. Canning... |
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| | artsMIA: Permanent Collection |
| | Here, the artist depicted his sister, Mariette in blue hair and green cape, with her top-hatted fiancé, Tan Hée Tseu, a Chinese art dealer from Berlin. | | | But as a creator of fantastic and bizarre images such as Intrigue, Ensor reveals his kinship to old masters of the bizarre such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. | | | The couple's engagement had caused a scandal in the home town of the Ensor family, and the artist, in retaliation, depicts the town gossips who, disguised in their masks, have come out to point, stare, and laugh at the couple. |
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| | James Ensor artist and art...the-artists.org |
| | JAMES ROSENQUIST MONOCHROME PAINTINGS, highlights a theme that Rosenquist has explored throughout his phenomenal four-decade career but which has never before been presented either for exhibition or critical study despite countless museum and gallery shows worldwide. | | | Share your comments about the artist James Ensor | | | Information on the life, background and work of James Ensor |
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| | James Ensor Online |
| | Fin de Siècle: Symbolist Art from the Age of Decadence | | | Macabre Belgian Ensor Painted Self as Beetle, article by Hilton Kramer | | | James Ensor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
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| | Art Prints - Ensor, James |
| | Ensor, James - (www.art.com) - Get art prints at art.com | | | Art » Museum Art » Museum Artists » Artists by Art Movement » Expressionism »; Ensor, James | | | Ensor, James - (www.shopping.com) - Shop for Ensor, James at shopping.com. |
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| | Meeting James Ensor (Belgium's Famous Painter) |
| | This website is about James Ensor (Belgium's Famous painter) and involves a tour of his house and grave in Ostend. | | | If you are without such technology, proceed to the navigation page and do your best from there. |
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| | The James Ensor House |
| | The completely restored house of our world famous painter James Ensor.(1860-1949) | | | On the ground floor the shop of shells and souvenirs previously kept by his aunt and uncle, |
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