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Even at the start of the 21st Century, Ensor's subjects and points of view remain resoundingly up to date.
Edward Goldman: Winter's Three Best Art Exhibitions In Museums Around The World Edward Goldman 2011
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Even at the start of the 21st Century, Ensor's subjects and points of view remain resoundingly up to date.
Edward Goldman: Winter's Three Best Art Exhibitions In Museums Around The World Edward Goldman 2011
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I wanted to share this deliciously dark YouTube video which was filmed in Belgian painter James Ensor's 1860-1949 house in Ostend and set to the music of Siouxsie Sioux.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Art Fair Survey, James Ensor, Chinese Mask Changing, and More Jane Chafin 2011
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I wanted to share this deliciously dark YouTube video which was filmed in Belgian painter James Ensor's 1860-1949 house in Ostend and set to the music of Siouxsie Sioux.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Art Fair Survey, James Ensor, Chinese Mask Changing, and More Jane Chafin 2011
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I wanted to share this deliciously dark YouTube video which was filmed in Belgian painter James Ensor's 1860-1949 house in Ostend and set to the music of Siouxsie Sioux.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Art Fair Survey, James Ensor, Chinese Mask Changing, and More Jane Chafin 2011
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But compared with truly visionary, light-filled pictures by Rembrandt, Seurat, Redon, William Blake and van Gogh, Ensor's freakish carnival masks, religious subjects, lampoons and bathroom humor fall not into the realm of the mysteries of art but into that of the locker room and sideshow.
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Like a magical costume trunk, the shop's oddball paraphernalia provided both characters and props for Ensor's fantastical, pictorial theater.
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MoMA's exhibition, organized by Anna Swinbourne with the assistance of Susan Canning and Jane Panetta, includes a dozen works produced after 1900, but focuses on Ensor's productive period from 1880 to the mid-1890s.
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As with many of Ensor's works, however, these genre paintings remain patchy and uneven, sometimes resembling mere exercises more than fully realized compositions.
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Yet the survey of about 130 of Ensor's paintings, drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art made me wonder just how much more convincing his art might have been had he pursued his craft and his visions more seriously — or had made up his mind about what kind of artist he wanted to be.
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