This artist's modification of one of his traditionally-styled self- portraits to include a silly flowered hat foreshadows his departure from the Dutch Baroque style he imitated in The Bourgeois Salon, The Lampboy, and The Oyster Eater.
This artist's modification of one of his traditionally-styled self- portraits to include a silly flowered hat foreshadows his departure from the Dutch Baroque style he imitated in The Bourgeois Salon, The Lampboy, and The Oyster Eater. His morbid Death Pursuing a Flight of Mortals and Two Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man shocked even members of the artistic group he co- founded, "Les Vingt." Skeletons in the Studio combined his skeleton theme with his other favorite motif, carnival masks, which memorably appeared in his most studied work, a painting showing his sister and her Chinese fiancée being harassed by a crowd of festively dressed gawkers, entitled Intrigue. FTP, name this Ostend resident and premier Belgian expressionist painter.
This artist's modification of one of his traditionally-styled self- portraits to include a silly flowered hat foreshadows his departure from the Dutch Baroque style he imitated in The Bourgeois Salon, The Lampboy, and The Oyster Eater.
James {Ensor}