An outstanding painter and graphic artist James Ensor (1860-1949), the forerunner of surrealism and expressionism, was born in the Belgian port city of Ostend.
In 1877 Ensor entered the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under John Portales, who introduced the Belgian art orientalizm.Takzhe Ensor obsessing over the old masters, making numerous sketches of works by Hals, Rembrandt, Goya, Callot, and Turner, Daumier, Manet .
In 1880 he returned home and began working independently. Initially, he attracted to Impressionism. The Belgian version of Impressionism semitones attached greater importance than the vivid colors. Ensor softens the bourgeois interiors, images of which are inspired by everyday life in Ostend.
Ensor refused impressionistic manner and down-home stories. Beginning in 1883, a special place in the subject of his paintings occupy a carnival masks with their psychological and aesthetic relations. "The mask means for me the freshness of tone, a piercing expression, lush decor, unexpected gestures, erratic movements, the particular emotion," - says the artist. In real life, people hide the feelings, thoughts and desires behind the masks of decency, education, or cunning. Shed the mask can express all secret vices and movement of the soul, you only need to pick an appropriate expression "person". How to develop the theme of masks appears skeleton, which often plays the role of female impersonator, or is imminent completion of human life.
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