The wife of King Albert, Queen Paola, commissioned Fabre, who used the jewel-like shells of scarabs culled from the Far East. |
Jan Fabre was inspired by the 'action paintings' of Yves Klein, which used bodies as living paintbrushes. |
I had read it in Fabre, and was enabled to watch it work out with some intelligence. |
Fabre was a notable athlete, a Hercules in miniature, and he used to run and jump. |
The well-known Flemish artist Jan Fabre has glued no fewer than 1.4 million green beetles to its ceiling. |
This adjustment of the size of the fly to the growth of the larva has also been noted by Fabre. |