James Ensor. Le peintre des masques. Antique In a 352-page work

In a 352-page work

Mais à ces sept merveilles incontestables devrait être ajoutée sans doute la nature elle-même telle que la représente al-Mutahhar ibn Muhammad al-Yazdi

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James Ensor. Le peintre des masques. Antique In a 352-page workAhead 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