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Gustave Moreau (French: [ɡystav mɔʁo]; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".
Gustave Moreau's visionary paintings speak to an obsession with the otherworldly, the macabre, and the life of the imagination which resonates across the recent centuries, making him one of the most fascinating of 19 th -century painters for modern audiences.
Apr 14, 2024 · Gustave Moreau (born April 6, 1826, Paris, France—died April 18, 1898, Paris) was a French Symbolist painter known for his erotic paintings of mythological and religious subjects.
Sep 8, 2023 · Though he considered himself to be first and foremost a painter of history, Gustave Moreau is now widely regarded as the father of Symbolist art, a fitting honorific for the artist who once described painting as a “language of symbol, myth and sign.”
With his Academic, Romantic and Italianised styles, Gustave Moreau could only be an eclectic artist, borrowing, like so many of his successful fellow artists, the constituent elements of an impersonal style.
Gustave Moreau was a leading figure in the French Symbolist movement. He completed this painting in 1889, although he began working on it many years earlier.The story of Saint George and the dragon had long been popular with artists, and the painting shows Moreau’s awareness of earlier images of...
Gustave Moreau attends the private studio of neoclassical painter François-Edouard Picot, decorator of public monuments and churches in Paris. There, he prepares for the entrance exam to the Ecole Royale des Beaux-Arts.
See all 5 artworks ›. Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875/76. Gustave Moreau. Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna, c. 1876. Gustave Moreau. L’Inspiration, c. 1893. Gustave Moreau. La Peri (Mythological Subject), 1865. Gustave Moreau.
Gustave Moreau was an artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence." He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the...
Aug 22, 1999 · Organized chronologically, Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream clearly reveals an extraordinarily original and imaginative artist who, free from financial constraints and concerns of the marketplace, was able to pursue his own artistic vision.
