Word: delvaux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Belgian pavilion offered Surrealist René Magritte, whose charm lies in such odd notions as painting a night scene under a noonday sky. Less appealing was another major Belgian entry. Surrealist Paul Delvaux, whose careful rendering of a Crucifixion and a Pietá peopled entirely by skeletons seemed in needlessly bad taste...
...pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor followers: Swiss Paul Klee, Russian Marc Chagall, Belgian Paul Delvaux...
Magritte is 48, married, and has a pet Pomeranian, "Jacacki." He is a dapper dresser, paints on a time-clock daily schedule in a corner of his small, commonplace living room. Magritte considers Dali an excellent businessman ("he is rich") but has intense scorn for fellow Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux, who paints luscious nudes picking roses in classic landscapes, with now & then a streetcar lurking about in the background (TIME, Dec. 30). Painter Delvaux, Magritte thinks, "has exploited surrealism as he would have exploited pork-butchery...
...Delvaux, 49, who really does look like Keaton (and poses before a mirror as his own model), lives and works in solid comfort on Brussels' conservative Rue d'Ecosse. He is a dreamer who reads little, belongs to no church, no political party. The tables and cupboards in his studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood...
Frequently classified as a Surrealist, Delvaux says he is not, but he admits that "dreams play a great part in my inspiration-not necessarily my own dreams, though. For instance, my Village of Mermaids, on exhibition in New York, is the result of a dream my wife had. She dreamed she saw women sitting in gilded chairs in the village street and diving like mermaids into the sea." Delvaux sometimes paints his wife's wide-eyed, classic face but nothing more; his nudes are painted from two professional models: a Swede and a Russian...