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    Posted: June 19 2006 at 19:29
Somewhere I've heard that Peter Hammill had written the song "My Room" (Still Life 1976), while being impressed by a picture of a Belgian painter. I'm sure I'm mistaken with the name of the painter, anyway, it sounded for me like James Elso (the surname is for sure spelled differently).
 
Does anybody know something about it? Is this right? If it is, what is the right name of the painter, what is the name of the picture and where it can be seen?
 
Thank you.
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Points: 4202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 06:20
James Ensor. Very interesting. He was an early expressionist contemporary to Edward Münch and almost as influential on the german expressionists as him.

A lot of crowds with masks, skeletons, plenty of angst and alienation. His most famous woks are made during the 1890's.









Early work.

It makes perfect sense that these paintings spoke to the young Peter Hammill.
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Points: 4202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 06:34
Some more. A man with a lot of demons to fight. Oh, I couldn't find any paintings actually called 'The Room'.








Edited by Rocktopus - June 20 2006 at 06:40
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Points: 20436 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 08:20
James Ensor is one of the many Belgian XXth painters internationally known, along with René Magritte and Luc Delvaux (those last two are into surrealism), Michel Folon (graced many times Time magazine covers, but became a scultor before his recent death) and Felicien Rops (who was more like Ensor stylistically and as macabre), just to name a few
 
With modern techniques (aerograph) Luc Genot (or is it Jeuniaux ?) >> everybody has seen his posters around and most girls my age had a at least one in their bedroom.
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 11:27

James Ensor
My Favorite Room, 1892
Oil on canvas, 80x99.7 cm.
Gift of Oscar and Shulamit
Fischer's children, Tel Aviv
 
This is, for sure, the picture I've heard about.
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Thank you both, Rocktopus and Sean Trane, very much.
 
I still don't follow Hammill's mind about the connection between the unbearable despair expressed in the song and the picture but why should I? Peter Hammill has already done. Well, alienation, maybe...
 
What do you think about this connection?
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