Last days for Spilliaert eshibition!



Didn't you go yet? If you didn't, please try to! Untill next Sunday the 4th, Spilliaert exhibition is still at Fine Arts Museum of Brussels.

As a homage to the artist, who was born 125 years ago, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium presents in an extensive exhibition the original and very personal work of Léon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881 - Brussels 1946). In this exhibition, we can find two hundred works together, both domains of Léon Spilliaert's production, the autonomous and the illustration works, approaching in its almost entire diversity.

Spilliaert has acquaintances with the artistic movement of his time, confronting himself to the contemporary painters as well as writers. He is the precursor of a geometrical abstraction, a constructed and colourful Expressionism, a Surrealism mixed up with images and at the same time he redefines a vision of the space inspired by Japanese engravings.

  

Spilliaert who prefers to follow his imagination nurtured on literary images, philosophical talks and social realities observed behind the screens, starts a career far from each academic education. His original interpretation immediately stands out in the dark wash-drawings of his first years when he painted sharp and acute compositions showing a sound analysis and a deep psychology. While taking a bright look at his surrounding world, he indulged in an intense retrospection from which he extracts visionary self-portraits.

To know more, have a look to the exhibition oficial site.