An Annunciation scene by this artist replaces Gabriel with a blue-robed woman as Mary lies lazily on a sofa. In another work by this painter, two women sit in a blue Persepolis-like landscape scattered with Doric and Corinthian columns. A Lisel Mueller poem wonders if the title figures in a work by this artist are "prostitutes with chaste, identical faces" before declaring that "it is 1942; it is Europe, and nothing fits." That work shows two rows of women seated along an alleyway overlooking the sea and is entitled The Village of the Mermaids. The titular goddess lays on a golden recliner in the middle of a classical city square as various suppliants raise their arms to the sky in this man's Sleeping Venus. His motifs include skeletons engaged in everyday actions as well as (*) pale, dreamlike, and mostly-nude wo
An Annunciation scene by this artist replaces Gabriel with a blue-robed woman as Mary lies lazily on a sofa. In another work by this painter, two women sit in a blue Persepolis-like landscape scattered with Doric and Corinthian columns. A Lisel Mueller poem wonders if the title figures in a work by this artist are "prostitutes with chaste, identical faces" before declaring that "it is 1942; it is Europe, and nothing fits." That work shows two rows of women seated along an alleyway overlooking the sea and is entitled The Village of the Mermaids. The titular goddess lays on a golden recliner in the middle of a classical city square as various suppliants raise their arms to the sky in this man's Sleeping Venus. His motifs include skeletons engaged in everyday actions as well as (*) pale, dreamlike, and mostly-nude women who wander through streets lined with classical architecture. For 10 points, name this man most famous for being a Belgian surrealist not named Magritte.
An Annunciation scene by this artist replaces Gabriel with a blue-robed woman as Mary lies lazily on a sofa.
Paul Delvaux