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The Blind House (1892).<\/em><\/p>\n William Degouve de Nuncques (1867\u20131935) is one of the less well-known Belgian Symbolists but one with a place in art history for the picture above. The mysterious atmosphere of The Blind House<\/em> (often labelled as The Shuttered House<\/em>, The Pink House<\/em> or even The House of Mysteries<\/em>) was admired by Ren\u00e9 Magritte who inverted the apparent conjunction of night and day in his own Empire of Lights<\/em><\/a> series. Degouve de Nuncques’ other pictures from this period possess a similar quality of nocturnal mystery, a predilection he shared with other Belgian artists such as\u00a0L\u00e9on Spilliaert and Paul Delvaux. Many of these pictures are pastels, a popular medium among the Symbolists for its nebulous effects.<\/p>\n In Venice (1895).<\/em><\/p>\n The Black Swan (1896).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nocturnal Effect (1896).<\/em><\/p>\n Nocturne in the Parc Royal, Brussels (1897).<\/em><\/p>\n Night in Bruges (1897).<\/em><\/p>\n Lake Como (1897).<\/em><\/p>\n Night in Salzburg (1905).<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } The Blind House (1892). William Degouve de Nuncques (1867\u20131935) is one of the less well-known Belgian Symbolists but one with a place in art history for the picture above. The mysterious atmosphere of The Blind House (often labelled as The Shuttered House, The Pink House or even The House of Mysteries) was admired by Ren\u00e9 … Continue reading “The nocturnes of William Degouve de Nuncques”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,44,18,45],"tags":[148,115,7710],"class_list":["post-17352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-surrealism","category-symbolists","tag-bruges","tag-magritte","tag-william-degouve-de-nuncques"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4vS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"nuncques09.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Empire_of_Light_Belgium.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The art of L\u00e9on Spilliaert, 1881\u20131946<\/a>
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