Image source: The Art Tribune.
James Ensor, Oostende (Ostend, Belgium), 1860-1949.
The painter denounces in his society what the victorians called “cant” (sham, pretense, humbug).
The masks reveal the real face of the crowd. Only the artist is candid in a mortiferous surrounding.
Of truth and hypocrisy.
‘Ensor aux masques’ (Ensor with masks),1899.
