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Echo

Title	Echo
Artist	ポール・デルヴォー　Paul DELVAUX
Date	1943
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	105.0×128.0
Classification	Paintings
Accession Number	FO198800002000
Summary	In 1943 the poet Paul Eluard asked Delvaux to create this painting which is also known as “Mystery of the Street.” Columned Greek temple-like buildings are seen arrayed beneath a moonlit night along a stone paved road which runs from the lower right of the composition deep into the central left back of the composition. Mountains can be glimpsed behind on the horizon. The moonlight glitters coldly on the stone walls lining the street, and the sidewalk paving the road facing these walls is incomplete, with small pebbles left where the paving ends. De Chirico's influence can be seen in the depiction of the shadows of the buildings and figures. Three completely nude women, all in the same pose and with bewildered expressions, walk on the street towards the viewer, as if to keep on going right past the viewer. These women, floating along in the strange light are like manifestations of an Echo spirit with their left hands raised, and ears bent as if listening to memories. The women's sizes do not match those of their surrounding buildings or appropriate distances, and thus warp the surrounding space. The still atmosphere further develops a world made increasingly mystical by the combination of echoes bouncing off the stones, light and buildings.

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Native place	Antheit, BEL
Birth	1897
Dead place	Furnes, BEL
Died	1994
Biography	Born in Antheit, a small village in Liège province, Belgium. The skeleton motif which occurs occasionally in his work was a memory from the body models and skeleton modeIs he saw as a child. Studied at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and created his first works with a train station motif while in school. After 1930 was influenced by Flemish expressionism, and encountered the human figure models and skeletons displayed at the Spitzner Museum which displayed marvels in the Brussels sample market. This experience combined with his viewing of De Chirico's works at the 1934 Minotaur exhibition which featured Surrealist works, led him to gradually change to a more Surrealist painting style. He used train stations or buildings at night as his stage for groups of half-nude, expressionless beautiful women who wander like amnesiacs in his illogical, magical world.

Echo

Paul DELVAUX