This painting, Siren in Full Moonlight, debuted in 1940, as yet another Delveux nude. Belgian painter Paul Delveux took a lot of heat for his naked sirens. But nudity's a mere footnote to their alien features. These are not women. Does their unclothed status even matter? They appear unreal.

Delveux's mermaid lacks the warmth and tenderness of a human woman. We can't make sexual assumptions about her. She's a mysterious being - beyond sex. But Delveux's contemporaries did assume this. They called him controversial. Because his women were nude, they were labeled obscene.

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