Paul Delvaux

by Paul Delvaux and Antoine Terrasse

Book Overview

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.

Customer Reviews

It is Delvaux's absurdity and innocence of his art that gives his pictures undeniable charm

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.