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拍品專文
While Gustave Moreau’s training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts was deeply rooted in the academic tradition, he quickly distinguished himself as a visionary who boldly stepped across the boundaries of traditional painting to embrace the artistic ideals of the Romantic and Symbolist movement. Standing at the crossroads between academic and avant-garde painting, his resulting work blends a highly sophisticated and complex synthesis of divergent styles that encompass a diverse repertory of subjects.
In the final decades of the 19th Century, the influence of Symbolist art had spread across Europe. Inspired by Celtic and Norse legend, Florentine and Byzantine art, its aim was to find the key to `anywhere out of the world.’ Gustave Moreau stands as perhaps the most famous exponent of this movement against the Realists such as Gustave Courbet. Influenced by his friends Théodore Chassériau and Odilon Redon, Moreau developed what was described as a `new type of beauty’ inspired by the past and the realm of the imagination.
In his writings Moreau defined himself as a `gatherer of dreams’, fed and inspired by the classical Greek and Roman myths or the Old and New Testaments. It is the Bible that inspires the subject matter in the present painting.
In the final decades of the 19th Century, the influence of Symbolist art had spread across Europe. Inspired by Celtic and Norse legend, Florentine and Byzantine art, its aim was to find the key to `anywhere out of the world.’ Gustave Moreau stands as perhaps the most famous exponent of this movement against the Realists such as Gustave Courbet. Influenced by his friends Théodore Chassériau and Odilon Redon, Moreau developed what was described as a `new type of beauty’ inspired by the past and the realm of the imagination.
In his writings Moreau defined himself as a `gatherer of dreams’, fed and inspired by the classical Greek and Roman myths or the Old and New Testaments. It is the Bible that inspires the subject matter in the present painting.