my exhibit of choice...

this week i went back to the james ensor show that i saw once before...

the show was just a multitude of work at the moma. the reason it suck with me is for its deveristy in drawing and painting. i found his works are so interesting in his work of figures and faces and their distortion into a frightingly obsucre view of people. i found that all of his works were very articulated and based on a specific demsions of work. this has really been haunting me as of late, being a multi media artist, cutting the fat and deciding where i want to go. His view concerning people is to depict the nature of them, i was heading in this direction but not any longer, the idea of social and figural abstraction depicting a specific view is played out into so much work now.

there were a few specific images like the drunkards that really just seemed to catch my eye. the drunkards was a scene that emphisized social aspects of his life, being a massive bar fight and house party. the depiction was funny and compellingly detailed. i enjoyed his sence of goya. another was a mass of people that were fighting and skulls and heads. his sence of death was kinda scary and odvious. my favorite as a whole was his abstraction and busy quality.