Ensor

Taschen Basic Art

by Ulrike Becks-Malorny

Book by Becks-Malorny, Ulrike

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

96 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1999

Reviews

[HCE · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ensor <3

[Adolfo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Encontré bonitas similitudes de este artista solitario y mal entendido en su época con otro que conozco en nuestra época. A mi me parece que toda su obra de alguna manera esta relacionada con la muerte que también contiene un alta critíca a la sociedad. Quizás en el espíritu de este artista había un rencor hacia su medio que no logro nunca superar. La vida es muy cruda para los que se dan cuenta y sobresalen del rebaño popular y mayoritario. Lo recomiendo!

[Geert · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am from Ostende. I wonder if the woman who wrote this booklet ever took the trouble to go there, and maybe just walk up and down the Vlaanderenstraat (rue de Flandre in this book). Maybe, just maybe she would have noticed that a picture of the street is showing the wrong end of the street, an end he never painted. Is it important? Well, I think it is. It's too easy to write a book from.other books and articles, if you don't really contribute anything. This is called pulp.

[Joshua · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was my first real exposure to Ensor and it was really great. I'm looking forward to encountering more of Ensor's work.

[Kerfe · Rating 5 out of 5]

As with all Taschen art books, this is beautiful to look at and easy to read. The biographical information provides a nice overview of Ensor's life and times, and there are plenty of mostly color illustrations to complement the text.

The artist was eccentric, the art magical. The mask and skull paintings particularly appealed to me, as did Ensor's use of color. I didn't realize that Belgium had such a strong tradition of Carnival.

I wish I had read this before I saw his show at MOMA; it definitely would have added to the experience. At $10, a bargain.

[Bronwyn Rodden · Rating 5 out of 5]

This small but well made book by the wonderful Taschen publishers is a great read about this somewhat bizarre but gifted fin de siecle painter from Ostend, on the Belgium sea coast. It includes many images of his work, including some great ones from the great collection in Antwerp and the captions on the plates are informative and interesting.