The Isle of the Dead Ivesdale Figure The Bridge at Argenteuil in Autunn Composition,Landscape The Tennis Party -nn02- Roopville VELDE, Esaias van de Arabi myspace image Penneyfarms Ceiling of San Sebastiano -01- Spain Portlions Stende Vessels, Basket and Fruit Nuremberg Trinity with Mary Magdalene,St John the Herdsman with Cows by a River Portrait of the Artist Family Rest on the Flight to Egypt ag mirror sunday Franz Xaver Winterhalter School of Fontainebleau Lipgart, Earnest Miss Eleanor Urquhart space image Portrait of a Merchant Still Life with Oranges -II- -35- An Extensive Landscape with a Road by a The Artist-s Wife and his Setter Dog Alexander Nasmyth The Forge framed wall picture The Nest -19- Caryatid -39- Saint Mark Arriving in Venice Jesus Carrying the Cross The Adimari Cassone The Day-s Catch
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James Ensor:
Belgian
1860-1949
Belgian painter, printmaker and draughtsman. No single label adequately describes the visionary work produced by Ensor between 1880 and 1900, his most productive period. His pictures from that time have both Symbolist and Realist aspects, and in spite of his dismissal of the Impressionists as superficial daubers he was profoundly concerned with the effects of light. His imagery and technical procedures anticipated the colouristic brilliance and violent impact of Fauvism and German Expressionism and the psychological fantasies of Surrealism. Ensor most memorable and influential work was almost exclusively produced before 1900, but he was largely unrecognized before the 1920s in his own country. His work was highly influential in Germany, however: Emil Nolde visited him in 1911, and was influenced by his use of masks; Paul Klee mentions him admiringly in his diaries; Erich Heckel came to see him in the middle of the war and painted his portrait (1930; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.); Alfred Kubin owned several of his prints, while Marc Chagall and George Grosz also adapted certain elements from Ensor. All the artists of the Cobra group saw him as a master. He influenced many Belgian artists including Leon Spilliaert, Rik Wouters, Constant Permeke, Frits van den Berghe, Paul Delvaux and Pierre Alechinsky.
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