ART
James Ensor |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 20 October, 09:30Musée d'Orsay, 75007 [map]James Ensor
This exhibition, the first retrospective to be presented in Paris since 1990, aims to show the interplay of fracture and continuity to be found throughout
James Ensor's work.
Continuity comes from
Naturalism and
Symbolism that influenced his early work, as well as the tradition of masks, disguise, the grotesque and satire, and carnival, a legacy from his childhood in Ostend, a city to which he was deeply attached. Through his scathing irony, his sense of derision and self-derision, his intense colours and his expressiveness, Ensor, a strange and unclassifiable painter, finds his place amongst the precursors of
Expressionism.
| What: | James Ensor |
| When: | Tuesday 20 October, 09:30 |
| Where: | Musée d'Orsay, 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur 75007 [map] |
| Transport: | Solférino/Assemblée nationale |
| Cost: | 5,50-8EUR |
| Phone: | +33(0)1 40 49 48 14 |
| Web: | www.musee-orsay.fr |
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