The Social Context of James Ensor’s Art Practice

“Vive la Sociale”: This rousing, revolutionary statement, written on a bright red banner across the top of James Ensor''s Christ''s Entry into Brussels in 1889, served as a visual manifesto and call to action by the Belgian artist (1860-1949), one that announced with an insistent, public voice the centrality of his art practice to the cultural discourse of modern Belgium. This provocative declarat...