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| Title: | Christs Entry Into Brussels, 1889 |
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| Notes: | James Ensor took on religion, politics, and art in this scene of Christ entering contemporary Brussels in a Mardi Gras parade. In response to the French pointillist style, Ensor used palette knives, spatulas, and both ends of his brush to put down patches of colors with expressive freedom. He made several preparatory drawings for the painting, including one in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection.Ensor's society is a mob, threatening to trample the viewer--a crude, ugly, chaotic, dehumanized sea of masks, frauds, clowns, and caricatures. Public, historical, and allegorical figures, along with the artist's family and friends, make up the crowd. The haloed Christ at the center of the turbulence is in part a self-portrait: mostly ignored, a precarious, isolated visionary amidst the herdlike masses of modern society. Ensor's Christ functions as a political spokesman for the poor and oppressed--a humble leader of the true religion, in opposition to the atheist social reformer Emile Littré, shown in bishop's garb holding a drum major's baton and leading on the eager, mindless crowd. [Google Arts and Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/christ-s-entry-into-brussels-in-1889-james-ensor/IAGzNorm2VRqjA?hl=en] |
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| Date: | 1888 |
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| Artist: | Ensor, James, 1860-1949 |
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| Building: | J. Paul Getty Museum
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Los Angeles
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| State: | CA
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Matthew 21:1-11
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| Lectionary links: | APalm
CPalm
BPalm
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| General Subject: | Palm Sunday
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| Copyright Source: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ%27s_Entry_into_Brussels_in_1889.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | Ensor, James, 1860-1949. Christs Entry Into Brussels, 1889, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57370 [retrieved April 27, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ%27s_Entry_into_Brussels_in_1889.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 57370
Last Updated: 2021-11-17 15:02:11
Record Created: 2020-02-11 11:24:23 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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