{"product_id":"lon-spilliaert-from-the-depths-of-the-soul","title":"Léon Spilliaert: from the depths of the soul","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9789491819902\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2019\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ludion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first publication in English of the ultimate monograph on painter Léon Spilliaert\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) was one of the most important Flemish Symbolist painters. Although he was embedded in the Symbolist tradition, he was also drawn to the avant-garde. He was, in fact, an einzelgänger, or 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. And like Ensor, he was also driven by ridicule and irony, non-conformism and the urge to look at the world from a different perspective. He created his own spiritual imagery, experimented with pastel and gouache, and played with purified areas of colour and graceful lines. The sea under a cool moon, lonely figures with a vacant gaze, desolate beaches, empty rooms and stylised silhouettes in backlight: Spilliaert was always able to evoke an atmosphere of mystery, magic and alienation in abstract lines and colours. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis revised, English-language version of the ultimate Spilliaert book will be published to coincide with the major Spilliaert exhibition at the Royal Academy in London this autumn.","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":44613518393433,"sku":"PR1138333","price":179.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2551\/5502\/files\/image_TT6PN21CFJ60.jpg?v=1788142906","url":"https:\/\/smartfox.co.nz\/products\/lon-spilliaert-from-the-depths-of-the-soul","provider":"SmartfoxNZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}