Liu prefers simplenarrative style ebulliently painted inbrilliant colours that reveals a certainself-confidenceandnaivety, as ifseen through the distortedlensofPieterBruegel.
Dr Farid employed a technique called wavelet analysis to examine 13 drawings that had at one time or another been attributed to PieterBruegel the Elder, a 16th-century Flemish painter.
The painting's brutalized characters, drawn from history, the Bible, popular culture and even Ensor's family, align the Symbolist artist with a satiric tradition that includes such earlier Northern painters as Hieronymous Bosch and PieterBruegel.