James Ensor. Le peintre des masques. Théories de l’art Often overlooked or assimilated to

Often overlooked or assimilated to the buildings that would follow them

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Raoul Dufy resolutely committed himself to the experience of woodcuts

James Ensor. Le peintre des masques. Théories de l’art Often overlooked or assimilated toAhead of the 20th century avant gardes and opening the great surrealist tradition of Belgian art, James Ensor (1860 1949) created, slowly, unconsciously, but with sure logic, a kingdom of masks of which he would be king. It was for him the discovery of a country, province by province, with its picturesque places succeeding the terrible places and its sad surroundings extending or separating the mad districts. Emile Verhaeren (1855 1916) was a great