#gustave moreau
Gustave Moreau, La chimère (1876)
Regarded by many as being an important precursor to surrealism, Moreau’s symbolic illustrations, which are often rooted in biblical tradition or mythology, consciously depict a dream like world, void of any realism but rich in emotion and imagination.
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Gustave Moreau
L'Apparition
1876
Paris
Musée d'Orsay.
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Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864)
“This painting represents the moment when Oedipus confronts the winged monster outside Thebes and must solve her riddle to save his life as well as those of the besieged Thebans.”
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G.Moreau, L'apparizione, 1875.
Salomè respinge la terrificante visione che la inchioda, immobile, sulle punte; i suoi occhi si dilatano, la mano stringe in modo convulso la gola.(Huysmans)
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Gustave Moreau—Young Thracian Woman Carrying the Head of Orpheus,1875.
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Gustave Moreau—Orpheus at the Tomb of Eurydice,1891.
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Gustave Moreau—The Park and the Angel of Death,1890.
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SALOME DANCING BEFORE HEROD, 1876, by Gustave moreau
The work took Moreau seven years to paint. It created a sensation when it was exhibited for the first time in Paris at the Salon of 1876 and is arguably Moreau’s most important work. The painting is kept today in the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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