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Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream

Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream

Geneviève Lacambre
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Gustave Moreau was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness.The volume reproduces and describes in detail more than 200 of Moreau's works, ranging from such well-known paintings as "Orpheus" and "The Apparition" to lesser known but revealing watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Two particularly important paintings-- "Oedipus and the Sphinx" and "Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra" --are the focus of longer descriptions that cast light on Moreau's working methods. Genevieve Lacambre, Director of the Musee Gustave Moreau in Paris, introduces the volume and contributes an essay about Moreau's passionate interest in the "exoticism" of other cultures, particularly those of Persia and India. Marie-Laure de Contenson describes the artist's powerful attraction to medievalart and aesthetics. Larry Feinberg shows that Moreau was deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance and, in particular, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Douglas Druick writes about Moreau's evocative symbolic language, which drew on unique reinterpretations of mythical figures and events to convey the artist's anxieties about the immorality and materialism of his age.

This is a powerfully written and visually stunning record of the creativity and exquisite craftsmanship of Moreau's distinctive contributions to nineteenth-century art.
Language
English
Pages
308
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Release
March 28, 1999
ISBN
0691007349
ISBN 13
9780691007342

Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream

Geneviève Lacambre
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Gustave Moreau was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness.The volume reproduces and describes in detail more than 200 of Moreau's works, ranging from such well-known paintings as "Orpheus" and "The Apparition" to lesser known but revealing watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Two particularly important paintings-- "Oedipus and the Sphinx" and "Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra" --are the focus of longer descriptions that cast light on Moreau's working methods. Genevieve Lacambre, Director of the Musee Gustave Moreau in Paris, introduces the volume and contributes an essay about Moreau's passionate interest in the "exoticism" of other cultures, particularly those of Persia and India. Marie-Laure de Contenson describes the artist's powerful attraction to medievalart and aesthetics. Larry Feinberg shows that Moreau was deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance and, in particular, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Douglas Druick writes about Moreau's evocative symbolic language, which drew on unique reinterpretations of mythical figures and events to convey the artist's anxieties about the immorality and materialism of his age.

This is a powerfully written and visually stunning record of the creativity and exquisite craftsmanship of Moreau's distinctive contributions to nineteenth-century art.
Language
English
Pages
308
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Release
March 28, 1999
ISBN
0691007349
ISBN 13
9780691007342

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