{"product_id":"leon-spilliaert-from-the-depths-of-the-soul","title":"Léon Spilliaert: from the depths of the soul","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first publication in English of the ultimate monograph  on painter Léon Spilliaert\u003c\/b\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\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":"Ludion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665658286116,"sku":"9789491819902","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9789491819902.jpg?v=1773271215","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/leon-spilliaert-from-the-depths-of-the-soul","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}