“You pretend to be able to renew art through ballet?”
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Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist poly…
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culture · French Symbolist painter (1826–1898) · sculptor · painter · artist · also Gustave Moreau, G. Moreau, Moreau
Born 6 April 1826 · Died 18 April 1898 · Q203828
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1970· 1 entry
That Dalí (holding a wax replica of his own head on a silver platter) chose to make the public announcement of his plans to open his own museum, Teatro-Museo Dalí, in Figueras, Spain
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1961· 1 entry
No less than the Louvre Museum and the Museum of Modern Art mounted exhibitions of Moreau's paintings, which in turn were followed by a landmark exhibition of symbolism, Le Groupe des XX et son temps in Brussels in 1962
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1926· 1 entry
Centered around Moreau and his pupils
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1914· 1 entry
63 of the watercolors were sold to a single collector, and although regarded as among his finest work, they were not exhibited by the buyer, or their heirs, for well over 100 years, and are known only from some early, lo
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1906· 1 entry
And one was donated to the Musée national Gustave Moreau
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1898· 4 entries
Died 1898-04-18.
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Bequeathing the townhome and studio with nearly 1200 paintings and watercolors, and over 10,000 drawings to the State to be converted into a museum
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“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.”
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“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.”
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1895· 1 entry
Expanding his small studio on the top floor into a much larger exhibition space
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1891· 2 entries
Exemplified what could become of an artist's work after their death
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That he agreed to take over Delaunay's studio at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
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1888· 1 entry
But he declined professorship and a class, and the director Paul Dubois, exempted him from all formal obligations
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1886· 1 entry
Where Thëo Van Gogh was manager, and later in London
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1879· 1 entry
Including Moreau, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Jules-Élie Delaunay, Gustave Doré, Henri Gervex, Henri Harpignies, Ernest Hébert, Nélie Jacquemart, Eugène Lami, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Félix Ziem, and others
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1876· 1 entry
Completed Salome Dancing before Herod, which announced a more painterly style that would characterize his later works
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1875· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1875).
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And was promoted to an Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 1883
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1864· 1 entry
His painting Oedipus and the Sphinx received a great deal attention at the Paris Salon, winning a medal and establishing his reputation
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1860· 1 entry
That hung in Moreau's studio for the rest of his life
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1856· 3 entries
Deeply affected Moreau, and he left Paris to travel in Italy from 1857 to 1859, returning with hundreds of copies and studies he made of old master paintings there
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Finished in 1865 and dedicated to Chassériau
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Caused Moreau in his grief to withdraw from public life
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1854· 1 entry
Although he received a commission from the state in 1854 for Athenians being Delivered to the Minotaur in the Cretan Labyrinth which was shown at the 1855 Paris World's Fair and purchased for 4,000 francs for the Bourg-e
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1853· 1 entry
Converting the top floor into a studio for Moreau, where he and his parents lived for the rest of their lives
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1852· 2 entries
Presenting a Pieta which was purchased by the state for 600 francs
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At 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld, converting the top floor into a studio for Moreau, where he lived and worked, a bachelor, for the rest of his life, his father dying in 1862, and his mother, Adèle-Pauline in 1884
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1849· 1 entry
Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1846–1849).
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1848· 1 entry
And 1849 he left the École des Beaux-Arts prematurely
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1846· 1 entry
Moreau was admitted to Picot's formal class at the École des Beaux-Arts
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1844· 1 entry
Entered the private studio of François-Édouard Picot, a member of the École des Beaux-Arts, who offered classes to aspiring young artists to prepare for the entrance examinations at the École des Beaux-Arts
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1841· 2 entries
Visited Italy with his mother and relatives, where he filled a 60-page album with drawings
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Started attending a drawing studio in the evenings
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1837· 1 entry
Began attending the Collège Rollin (Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour) in Paris as a boarder, but in 1840 when his older sister died at the age of 13, he was withdrawn from the school and lived a somewhat sheltered life wi
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1826· 1 entry
Born 1826-04-06.
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