Özet:

The painting art, which has been a means of expression from ancient times to present, has played an important role in expressing the problems and social problems of the artists. The artist has created a language of communication using forms and colors in the painting and expression and has continued its translation with this language for centuries. With the grotesque narrative that continued from the Roman era to the present day and is addressed by many artists, the artists have used themselves and the problems of the time in which they lived as an outer language. The Grotesk expression has been enriched with different meanings and continued to exist in the picture as a representative element since it is in an approach that keeps a mirror to the experienced period. The artists have focused on grotesk narrative, exaggerated deformations, to emphasize the ugly to express the beauty, to narratives that contain irony and irony, to crude, scary, ridiculous situations. James Ensor, one of the expressionist artists who dealt with the grotesk expressions in their paintings with a humorous and fantastic style, has hidden real human figures behind his surprising and scary images while depicting the environment in which he lives. This situation has been revealed by the figures with the masks he uses, the skeletal figures, the figures with ugly and exaggerated spots. So the social problems were presented to the audience’s criticism from a humorous perspective. This research aims to analyze the meanings of James Ensor’s eight work with grotesque images in the background. The work analysis method was used in the analysis of the images, and the research was also supported by literary scan. According to the research, the scenes in which humor and tragedy intersect, the figures with scary, exaggerated grotesk spots, the skeletal figures; used as an element of attraction to social problems and presented to the audience with a social, critical attitude.

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