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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0010622
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Work Title (display):
The Strange Masks
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1892
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2013-01-15
Work Creator (display):
James Ensor (Belgian, 1860-1949)
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Ensor was a visionary and proto-modernist artist whose use of color prefigured fauvism and expressionism, and whose use of fantastical, symbolist, and satirical imagery were to influence Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, and later the Cobra group. His most productive period was been 1880 and 1900, but he was not well known until the late 1920s. Although many of his works feature satirical fantasies, he also painted seascapes, landscapes, and still-lifes. He was self-taught in the art of copperplate etching and produced many masterful works in this medium. In both his graphical works and in his paintings he made use of the carnival masks sold in his family's shop in Ostend as models for figures in thronging crowd scenes, still lifes, and domestic tableaux. These works can be interpreted as critiques of the Catholic Church, the Belgian state, and society in general. His most well-known painting may be "Christ's Entry into Brussels," a large-scale work in which the title figure is dwarfed by a crowd of grotesques. He remained in Ostend for the majority of his life, leaving in 1877 at the age of 17 to study at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Upon his return to Ostend in 1879 he established a studio above his parents shop, where he produced the majority of his mature work. In 1883 he was a founding member of the Groupe des Vingt. During his lifetime Ensor's work was critiqued harshly by his contemporaries, even among the avant-garde group he helped found. (Getty Union List of Artists Name accessed 2007-10-17)
Work Style Period:
19th century
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19th century
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Work Subject:
grotesque
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grotesque
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male
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Work Subject:
female
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Work Subject:
carnivalesque
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carnivalesque
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Work Subject:
reality
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reality
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Work Subject:
skeletons
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skeletons
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Work Subject:
theater
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theater
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
music
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music
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
oil
Work Measurements (display):
100 cm (L) x 80 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Brussels, Belgium
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Becks-Malorny, Ulrike. James Ensor, 1860-1949: Masks, Death and the Sea. K_ln: Taschen, 1999. Print.
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Becks-Malorny, Ulrike. James Ensor, 1860-1949: Masks, Death and the Sea. K_ln: Taschen, 1999. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
3-8228-7026-9
Image Source Reproduction page number:
66
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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