Sustainability and ecology in the art for my students’ cultural studies 6HWE4, my class, including ten Romanian guest students from our partner school Liceul Teoretic Aurel Lazăr Oradea. How Belgian artists as early as the 19th century had a heightened awareness in their work of the social changes that led to rampant exploitation of nature. ,,Petit bourgeois” Ensor sympathised with the Ostend fishing families during the Fishermen’s Revolt, which targeted the British fishermen with their dumping practices: anti-globalism or protest against the free market in his etching and painting ,,Les Gendarmes”. Esthete Léon Spilliaert immortalised the pure, uncontaminated coastlines of Ostend architecture in his work and décadent Fernand Khnoppf delivered Bruges la Morte back to the advancing sea after centuries of decay in ”La ville abandonnée”.
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