Moreau Gustave

For the show at the Salon, Moreau chose the watercolor version, and left this oil painting in the workshop along with two other, smaller canvases, which also showed scenes with

Creativity Gustave Moreau was divorced from the realities of the French life of the XIX century. He created mythological and religious paintings, fashionable for the time. The artist created his

According to the Bible, Bathsheba was a woman of rare beauty. King David, walking on the roof of his palace, saw Beersheba bathing downstairs. Her husband, Uriah the Hittite, was

From the 1870s, Moro’s heightened interest in color led the artist to experiment with an abstract composition, the basis of which was a bold, carefully thought out contrast of tones.

Literature, painting and art as a whole knows the themes, motifs, and plots, called the “eternal.” No, no, of course, nothing lasts forever, and time mercilessly passes through the sand

Apollo was the only god whom the Romans, in many respects imitating the Greeks and Greek culture, did not pick up another name. Why is the image of Apollo often

Not a single canvas demonstrates Moreau’s faith in the “need for luxury” as vividly as the painting “Jupiter and Semele,” on which the artist worked on for several years. He

Retelling the myth of Titan Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and gave it to people, is not particularly necessary. This myth is not without reason one of the

In his “red notebook” Moreau noted the following about this picture: “The girl finds the head of Orpheus floating on the water and his lyre. She reverently pulls them out

French painter Gustave Moreau loved to paint in mythological genre. The painting “Diomedes devoured by his horses” was painted by the artist in 1865. The plot is borrowed from ancient

The first car inevitably had to be like a wagon or cart – after all, it was created not from scratch, but on the principle of analogy, similarity. Carts and

St. George, striking a dragon, is a very popular plot in Renaissance painting. In the XIX century, interest in this topic with a new force manifested itself primarily in England,

The works of Gustave Moreau, a French artist, were closely associated with symbolism. But the nature of his work was different. The main principle of the artist was the principle

Very often, the source of Moro’s inspiration became works of medieval art. The artist believed that medieval symbols could be used to spiritualize contemporary art. Moreau hundreds of times copied

Gustave Moreau was brought up in the classical Western tradition, but a great influence on the artist had his acquaintance with the exotic culture of distant countries, from different times

French painter Gustave Moreau painted his paintings for religious, mythological and allegorical paintings throughout his life. His works were very popular among his contemporaries. In 1865, the artist creates the

Traditionally, watercolor was considered a “low genre”, but from about the middle of the 19th century, people began to take it more seriously. In his early years, Moreau used watercolor

Messallina is the third spouse of Emperor Claudius, the mother of Claudius Octavia and the famous Britannica, a power-hungry and influential Roman, remembered by descendants for her lecherous character. Changing

Gustave Moreau “Hesiod and Muse”. Description of the painting Gustave Moreau studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris under Theodore Chasserio. The artist was fond of ancient Greek

Despite the distrust of female nature, even on the slope of his life, Moreau continued to write a female nude in the tradition of Ingres, mastered by the artist through

Moreau began to paint this painting around 1874, but it remained unfinished. Details of the situation and the tattoo on the body of Salome speak of Moro’s increased interest in