When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
About Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreauwas a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him “the Symbolist painter par excellence”.: 110 p. 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.
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This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)