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One of Ensor's most famous and challenging paintings is Christ's entry into Brussels in 1889. The painting was intended to be a mock prophecy, a schedule for the Second Coming. The thick crowd of the faithful carries Jesus through the streets like a trophy (he's in the center with a five-ring halo).
In medieval religious precessions, people shouldered images of Jesus or saints through densely crowded streets, but in a spirit of reverence. Here the entire mob is dressed for a masquerade. But the masks appear to be their real faces. Perhaps it's their faith that's a masquerade. The red banner over the crowd states "Vive la Siciale" which translates to "Long live the welfare state". On the right, someone holds up a red sign that translates, "Long live Jesus, king of Brussels." The mob is poised to march right out of the painting into the viewer's world.

In 'The Entry of Christ into Brussels' Ensor wanted to criticize the church, the army and the state, the entire bourgeoisie; it is a satire, a grotesque, a parody.
Supposing that 'The Entry of Christ into Brussels' were a plastic testimony to an authentic and critical attitude to life, the artist later exchanged this for arivism and success.
The 'Ensorian psyche': a dubious psyche, in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUMrDhdIJ98

This video is about the market for expensive (say $10,000 to $100,000) paintings. Although made by an art lover, the account of how the market works is pretty brutal in its cynicism. His line is "Prices can fall, so just pay your money, hang it on your wall, and enjoy it." but maybe he is revealing that you $100,000 painting was never worth $10,000 to begin with

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second attempt at animation. peoples advice on timing the last one helped a lot, thank you. for the third one, i have located the program controls that let you see previous and next frames just reduced opacity, so the next one should be a LOT smoother, but im kind of liking the pencil scratching look for horror type content.