Paul Delvaux
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This monograph investigates the work of the Belgian Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, a colleague of Rene Magritte's whose best-known works feature odd groupings of female nudes who stare into space,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879556048
ISBN13:9780879556044
Release Date:January 1973
Publisher:J. P. O'Hara
Length:78 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
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It is Delvaux's absurdity and innocence of his art that gives his pictures undeniable charm
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
It is difficult for me to understand why Delvaux was considered so deeply shocking in his native Belgium. His nudes, after all, are never creatures of reality; they live in their strange dream world-remote, mysterious, and subtly threatening. Perhaps it is this menacing presence in his paintings that was considered to be so alarming by compatriots. My favorite, "A Siren in Full Moonlight," is a magical work that seems to me to be completely without sexual provocation. It is not a woman as a "temptress," but a woman as alien. Delvaux depicts her enclosed in the secret world of her unknowable mysteries. This woman of fish is living on the land of man; she is distanced by Delvaux, seemingly with a mixture of fascination and fear.
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