James Ensor

Ensor fills his canvases with grotesque carnival masks, skeletons, and biting satire in acid, vivid colour. Look for crowds of masks, macabre humour, and a strange, feverish theatricality.

James Ensor (1860–1949) was a painter from Belgium, associated with Expressionism.

More Expressionism painters: Egon Schiele, Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka.

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Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 — James Ensor
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