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Something wrong?He painted myths and Bible stories the academies loved, then made them strange - women who looked like visions, colors that shimmered past the frame. By the 1890s Moreau had become the lodestar of Symbolism, the painter who turned worn-out legends into something persuasive and new.
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Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
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Le singe et le chat Gustave moreau et felix bracquemond 1886 eau forte Musée Henri Boëz Maubeuge
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Modèle féminin debout dans l'atelier de Gustave MoreauIn their own words 4
, I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.
I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
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Gustave Moreau was born in Paris on 6 April 1826 and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, forming a close bond with Théodore Chassériau in the early 1850s. Chassériau's death in 1856 shook him; he left for Italy the next year and returned in 1859 with hundreds of studies of old masters. His Oedipus and the Sphinx won a medal at the 1864 Salon and made his name, drawing a circle of devoted collectors through the 1860s, but after harsh reviews in 1869 he stopped exhibiting regularly and withdrew from the Salon for good after 1880. Decorated in 1883, he grew reclusive, refused invitations and professorships, and only took a teaching post at the Ecole in 1891 after a friend's death - where he proved a brilliant teacher to Matisse, Rouault, and others. He lived as a bachelor in the studio his parents built for him in 1852, produced over 15,000 works, and died of cancer in 1898, leaving the house and nearly everything in it to the state. It opened as the Musée Gustave Moreau in 1903.
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