Word: ensor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...