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James Ensor, de Man achter het Masker (2024)

Documentary | 60 minutes / 54 minutes (ingekorte tv-versie)
3,50 6 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 60 minuten / 54 minuten (ingekorte tv-versie)

Alternative title: James Ensor. De Man achter het Masker

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Maarten Vandeursen and Pieter Verbiest

Stars: Sam Louwyck, Xavier Tricot and Herwig Todts

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James Ensor, de Man achter het Masker plot

Seventy-five years ago, James Ensor, one of the most intriguing, talented and idiosyncratic artists Belgium has ever known, died. In this documentary, Sam Louwyck takes the viewer on a tour through his hometown of Ostend. Together with experts and artists such as Xavier Tricot, Herwig Todts and Kati Heck, he searches for the motifs of James Baron Ensor. Who was that mysterious figure with his long white beard and black overcoat? The difficult years at the art academy, his mother's cabinet of curiosities in the Vlaanderenstraat, his father's drama, his love for the light of Ostend: the combination of these puzzle pieces allowed Ensor to evolve into the most important Belgian modern painter.

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Movsin

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Solid documentary that gets to know us painter James Ensor a little better.

Interesting when it comes to Ensor, the human being, and especially when the meaning behind all those masks is explained in more detail.

Sam Louwyck, in his genuine Ostend, could have spoken more.

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De filosoof

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The documentary shows the Flemish painter James Ensor as a thoroughly contrary man who made almost nothing but enemies but whose work is now acclaimed as being on the same level as his contemporary Van Gogh. In my opinion, Ensor is the epitome of the avant-garde who consciously breaks with the previous and presents his work as the new Truth with himself as the genius who gives art the new rules. He saw himself as a 'peintre exceptionel' who does not belong anywhere and as the misunderstood genius who first breaks with the academic style he learned at the art academy and then with the impressionist style - his early work shows, however, that he could paint beautifully in different styles - in favor of an aggressive, expressive, caricatural style that depicts the others as ridiculous figures while he himself is the Christ condemned by those idiots. The masks or mask-like faces characteristic of these later works are actually unmaskings: Ensor wanted to show how ridiculous or monstrous people really are behind the beautiful facade. It produces hard, ugly art that provokes: Ensor's new Truth is not pleasant to look at, with which he would also anticipate much of the avant-garde of the 20th century, so that he is indeed avant-garde par excellence.

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