Paul Delvaux was a Belgian Surrealist painter who was a contemporary of René Magritte. He was influenced in particular by the work of Giorgio de Chirico, who also inspired Magritte and the other Surrealists. This work includes several of the motifs favored by De Chirico, such as an interior space and public squares, mannequins and geometric rulers. The objects depicted are all easily identifiable. But what is this place where they exist? It seems somehow different to our world. It is the surrealistic world of Delvaux’s art—somehow alien, and yet inhabited by highly specific, highly recognizable objects.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)
Paul Delvaux was a Belgian Surrealist painter who was a contemporary of René Magritte. He was influenced in particular by the work of Giorgio de Chirico, who also inspired Magritte and the other Surrealists. This work includes several of the motifs favored by De Chirico, such as an interior space and public squares, mannequins and geometric rulers. The objects depicted are all easily identifiable. But what is this place where they exist? It seems somehow different to our world. It is the surrealistic world of Delvaux’s art—somehow alien, and yet inhabited by highly specific, highly recognizable objects.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)