EXHIBITION – To close the year celebrating the 75th anniversarye anniversary of his death, three museums in the Flemish city pay bold tribute to the grimacing painter of masks and skeletons.
Special envoy to Antwerp (Belgium)
November suits James Ensorthat devil of a man born in Ostend on April 13, 1860, and died on November 19, 1949, at the age of 89, in the same fishing town that had become a royal seaside resort on the Flemish coast. November, with its gray winds, all-consuming skies, diffused light and plunge into winter twilight, was the perfect setting for his first large-scale paintings.
Those that defy impressionism and almost dilute the silhouettes ofAdam and Eve cast out from earthly paradise (1887) in the empty landscape, ghostly figures in earth tones, as if linking the human condition to destiny, between religious history, Darwinism and anticlericalism. November, in memory of the dead. Whether we celebrate the 1ster All Saints’ Day and all the saints of the Church are celebrated on All Saints’ Day, and the faithful departed are commemorated on November 2. Or that we celebrate Halloween the American way, with grimacing masks, outrageous make-up and costumes taken from…
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