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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".
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.
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.
List of all 167 artworks by Gustave Moreau. Go to Artist page.
Leading the Revival of Realism. MOREAU, GUSTAVE (1826-1898), French painter, was born in Paris on the 6th of April 1826. His father was an architect, who, discerning the lad's promise, sent him to study under Picot, a second-rate artist but clever teacher.
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.
