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Article: 'Endlessly nuanced dreams': painter James Ensor was a gifted, irreverent religious artist.(Opinion & ARTS)
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- July 24, 2009
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The last great religious painting of the 19th century was not publicly exhibited until a major retrospective was held for James Ensor at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels in 1929 and King Albert I of Belgium bestowed on him the title Of baron. Ensor's monumental "The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889," which he had completed in 1888 (it is over 8 feet high and 14 feet wide), was at once a contemporary interpretation of Christ entering Jerusalem/Brussels (with Ensor playing Christ), a critique of contemporary Belgian society, and a bawdy depiction of the annual Carnival scene. Irresistible on all three levels, it remains among the ...
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... ... survive intact, but if the point of ''James Ensor 1860-1949: Theatre of Masks ... the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the 17-year-old was, in truth ... revisited by Turner. The outcome was ''Brussels Town Hall,'' painted from a high point ...
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