James Ensor artwork - The Assassination - 1890
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
Size: 3220px × 2500px
Location: The Columbus Museum of Art, USA
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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