James Ensor (1860 - 1949)
Related: grotesque art - modern art - art in Belgium
Skeletons fighting over a smoked herring (1891) - James Ensor [image link]
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Biography
James Sidney Ensor, Baron Ensor (April 13, 1860–November 19, 1949), was a Belgian painter whose unique portrayals of grotesque humanity made him a principal precursor of 20th-century expressionism and surrealism. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ensor [Jun 2005]
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