Title:
Seascape
Creator/Contributor:
James Ensor (artist)
Date:
undated
Identifier:
1966.70
Format:
oil on canvas
This small, almost abstract seascape tells us much about the young artist finding his own voice.
Seascape stands as a transitional work, in which the artist overcame the thick, muddy colors of his formal training. Instead,
he has lightly painted the clear, cool colors of the sky and sea. Ensor's study of light eventually turned, in his mature
works, to the use of intense, unmixed colors applied in swirls of paint.