Thursday, November 17, 2011

James Ensor

Artist: James Ensor
Title: the rower
Size: 79 x 99 cm
date: 1883

  Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgiam painter/print maker.  He gave took heed on a surrealist style.  He dropped out of school at age 15 to study the arts,  he learned from two local painters.  Many of work was credited to be sacrilegious in taste and was looked down upon by the authority but his paintings continued to gain respect and acknowledgment throughout his art community. 

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