engl 2020 themes in literature and culture: the grotesque james ensor (1860-1949)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

James Ensor (1860-1949)


persona(e): the Latin name for the tragic and comic masks used in Classical theatre.

“Personality” is a word etymologically traceable back to persona.


Still Life with a Duck (1880)


Rue de Flandre in the Snow

(1881)


Memento Mori

(Remember That You Will Die)


The Scandalized Masks (1883)


Strange Insects (1888)


The Astonishment of the Mask Wouse (1889)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The

Grotesque

Skeletons Trying to Warm

Themselves (1889)


My Portrait as a Skeleton

(1889)


Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring

(1891)


Masks Fighting Over a Hanged Man

(1891)


The Wise Judges (1891)


The Grotesque Singers (1891)


The Intrigue (1892)


The Strange Masks (1892)


The Bad Doctors (1892)


Death Pursuing the Human Herd

(1896)


The Skeleton Painter

(1896/97)

Compare to Chagall’s Apparition

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=chagall+apparition&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=_TD7xGm2YcsPiM:&imgrefurl=http://www06.homepage.villanova.edu/christopher.j.wilson/apparition.htm&docid=jMlO17C74zGQlM&w=673&h=780&ei=sA6FTuDYIoiftwfu-LhH&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=98&vpy=134&dur=6261&hovh=242&hovw=208&tx=120&ty=129&page=1&tbnh=151&tbnw=123&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=chagall+apparition&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=_TD7xGm2YcsPiM:&imgrefurl=http://www06.homepage.villanova.edu/christopher.j.wilson/apparition.htm&docid=jMlO17C74zGQlM&w=673&h=780&ei=sA6FTuDYIoiftwfu-LhH&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=98&vpy=134&dur=6261&hovh=242&hovw=208&tx=120&ty=129&page=1&tbnh=151&tbnw=123&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0


Death and the Masks (1897)


The Entry of Christ into Brussels (1898)Larger Online Version

http://yourownjesus.net/Christ's%20Entry%20into%20Brussels%20James%20Ensor.jpg


Hop Frog’s

Revenge (1898)


Ensor with Masks (1899)


Gluttony (1904)


James Ensor (1860-1949)

Ensor on the Grotesque Blog

http://thegrotesqueblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/hogarths-gin-lane.html

http://thegrotesqueblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/hogarths-gin-lane.html

engl 2020 themes in literature and culture: the grotesque james ensor (1860-1949)

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