Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
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Sarah Slappey on James Ensor
James Ensor, The Tribulations of Saint Anthony, 1887, Oil on canvas, 46 ⅜ x 66 inches James Ensor, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Hieronymous Bosch have all painted depictions of the torment of Saint Anthony by demons and monsters. In Ensor’s Tribulations of Saint...
Barry Nemett on Gwen John
The building weighs less than a flower. The parasol stem dreams about being a wicker chair…
David Humphrey on James Ensor
Misreading pleases me almost as much as mishearing. The read or heard phrase arrives into consciousness seeming to belong to someone else…
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