Spilliaert: De bezielde blik

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Anne Adriaens-Pannier

Ludion, 2016

120,00

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The definitive Spilliaert book.

Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) was one of the most important Flemish symbolist painters. Although he was embedded in the symbolist tradition, he also had an eye for the avant-garde. In fact, he was a loner, balancing on the fault line between two centuries, a transitional figure between symbolism and surrealism.

Spilliaert, like James Ensor, was born and raised in Ostend. Like Ensor, he was driven by mockery and irony, non-conformism and the urge to look at the world from a different perspective. He created his own spiritual visual language, experimented with pastel and gouache, and played with purified areas of colour and graceful lines.
The sea under a cool moon, lonely figures with an empty gaze, desolate beaches, empty rooms and stylized silhouettes in backlight: Spilliaert always knew how to evoke an atmosphere of mystery, magic and alienation in abstract lines and colors.
Our copy is in very good condition, has a small tear (0.5 x 0.3 cm) on the cover at the bottom right, touched up with black marker, perfect inside. IN DUTCH!

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ISBN: 9789055446278

336 pages, illustrations in color & b/w, 29 x 25,4 cm, hardcover, Dutch