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)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

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

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

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Still Life with a Duck (1880)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Rue de Flandre in the Snow

(1881)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Memento Mori

(Remember That You Will Die)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Scandalized Masks (1883)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Strange Insects (1888)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Astonishment of the Mask Wouse (1889)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The

Grotesque

Skeletons Trying to Warm

Themselves (1889)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

My Portrait as a Skeleton

(1889)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring

(1891)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Masks Fighting Over a Hanged Man

(1891)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Wise Judges (1891)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Grotesque Singers (1891)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Intrigue (1892)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Strange Masks (1892)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Bad Doctors (1892)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Death Pursuing the Human Herd

(1896)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

The Skeleton Painter

(1896/97)

Compare to Chagall’s Apparition

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Death and the Masks (1897)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

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

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Hop Frog’s

Revenge (1898)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Ensor with Masks (1899)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

Gluttony (1904)

ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque

James Ensor (1860-1949)

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