2. Biography.
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was born on April 13, 1860 in Ostend,
Belgium. His father was James Frederic Ensor, born in Brussels. It was a cultured
man and he studied engineering in England and Germany. His mother was
Maria Catherina Haegheman, a Belgian.
Ensor had no interest in academic study and left school at fifteen to begin his
training as an artist. From 1877-1880, he attended the Académie Royale des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels
He had a studio in the attic of his parents' house. He made three brief trips to
France and two in the Netherlands in the 1880s. He also did a four-day trip to
London in 1892.
He died on November 19, 1949 in the city of his birth, in Belgium.
3. Art.
Innovative and allegorical use of light.
Prominent use of satire.
Deep interest in carnival and performance.
His own self-fashioning and use of masking, travesty, and role-playing.
4. Ensor's early works depict realistic scenes in a somber style.
Russian Music (1881)
The Drunkards (1883)
5. Then he favored increasingly bizarre subject matter, and he used more bright colors.
He was inspired by ones that her mother sold that were figures in grotesque masks.
The Scandalized Masks Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man
6. MATURE WORK.
Subjects: carnivals, masks, puppetry, skeletons, and fantastic allegories are dominant.
He dressed skeletons, and used masks as a theatrical aspect in his still lifes.
He liked masks plastic forms, bright colors, and potential for psychological impact.
7. BETWEEN 1888 AND1892.
He turned on religious themes because he has a personal disgust for the humanity.
In 1888 he created forty-five etchings.
He created as well Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 is considered his most famous
work and was a precursor to Expressionism.
Christ's Entry Into Brussels is a recreation, parody of the entry in Jerusalem, set in the
carnival holidays. The courtship it forms this multitude in the first term, all of them
covered, covered his faces with masks. Complex composition, full persons',
elements, with a composition, surface of the picture absolutely cover Horrovaqui,
with intense and grating colors, which connect with what then will be the painting
fauvista.
9. In the final years of the 19th century, his style softened and he painted less.
His paintings had an aggressive sarcasm and scatology that had characterized his
work, and much of his output consisted of mild repetitions of earlier works.
The Artist's Mother in Death The Vile Vivisectors
10. Some paintings.
Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889.
The Lamp Boy (1880).
Russian Music (1881).
The Drunkards (1883).
The Scandalized Masks (1883).
Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man (1891).
Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889.
Les Aureoles du Christ of 1885.
The Artist's Mother in Death (1915).
The Vile Vivisectors (1925).
Carnaval sur la plage (1887).
La mort poursuivant le troupeau des humains (1896).
Le bal fantastique (1889).
