" These figures appear in The Archaeologists and The Seer, and they were described as having (*) "heads like darning-eggs" in a poem by Sylvia Plath describing a painting depicting three of them.
Willard Bohn argues that one artist's use of these figures was inspired by the title figure of a poem containing the line, "Man Oh! Ariadne." That poem, in which a flutist leads all the women in the town to a fountain, is "The Musician of Saint-Merry" by Apollinaire. Two of these figures embrace on a wooden platform between two red buildings in Hector and Andromache. Classical aqueducts, temples, and pillars make up the torsos of a pair of these figures, while in another work, one of them sits in front of a black easel painting and has a star as its mystical "third eye." These figures appear in The Archaeologists and The Seer, and they were described as having (*) "heads like darning-eggs" in a poem by Sylvia Plath describing a painting depicting three of them. That work shows the red bulb-like head of one perched on top of a classical torso set on a pillar. For 10 points, name these faceless and lifeless objects used in place of humans by the painter of The Disquieting Muses, Giorgio de Chirico.
Willard Bohn argues that one artist's use of these figures was inspired by the title figure of a poem containing the line, "Man Oh! Ariadne.
mannequins [accept tailors' dummies and other similar objects; prompt on "Muses"]