Word: delvaux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young man, Ballard was drawn to surrealist art and its realistic images of fantasies. He retains this enthusiasm. Using money he earned from Empire of the Sun, he commissioned an artist to re-create two paintings by the Belgian Paul Delvaux that had been destroyed in London during the Blitz. One of these large canvases sits in Ballard's front parlor, and the other presides over his workroom, an unsettling tableau of dream maidens and bare breasts in an otherwise comfortable setting. "Sadly," Ballard says, "the only surrealists around these days are psychopaths. But we all need to fight...
...Strada--Wednesday at 5 p.m.; with Paul Delvaux, or the Forbidden Women and A page of Love at 8 p.m.; Carpenter Center...