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Magritte’s multi-punning painting “Le Viol” compares the female body
to the female face, but also to a musical instrument. Though the
direct translation of the title is usually “violation” (which in
some ways makes more sense that its usual English title, “The
Rape”), it also sounds a lot like the musical instrument “la
viole”—in other words, “the viola.” René Magritte, The Rape, 1934. The Menil Collection, Houston © Charly Herscovini, Brussels/Artists Rights Society, New York. |
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