As with literary and musical genres, some categorical distinctions in visual art seem to blur, overlap, or mix together. The Spanish painter Goya produced what surely looks like surrealistic dreams or nightmares that sometimes have symbolist touches.
Whatever the case, I remember visiting the Gustave Moreau Museum / Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris not long after the Chernobyl disaster, in the 1980s, in the IXe arrondissement, Right Bank, at 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld. Moreau (4/6/1826-4/18/1898), a "French Symbolist" painter, often explored mytholgy and religious iconography in a sometimes eerie, sometimes alluring way. He inspired contemporary Symbolist writers and later Surrealists.
Here's a link to the museum, which was also Moreau's house: http://www.musee-moreau.fr/
Whatever the case, I remember visiting the Gustave Moreau Museum / Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris not long after the Chernobyl disaster, in the 1980s, in the IXe arrondissement, Right Bank, at 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld. Moreau (4/6/1826-4/18/1898), a "French Symbolist" painter, often explored mytholgy and religious iconography in a sometimes eerie, sometimes alluring way. He inspired contemporary Symbolist writers and later Surrealists.
Here's a link to the museum, which was also Moreau's house: http://www.musee-moreau.fr/
And here's Moreau's hypnotically hip Salomé Dancing Before Herod / Salomé and L'Apparition (1876 -- about the time of the Little Big Horn, a world of consciousness away):
It's like that Faces song from 1971: "Every picture tells a story, don't it?!?"
Today's Rune: Warrior.
3 comments:
Now Goya was my kind of artist. I prefer his work so immensely over Pollack.
Every school of interpretation has to have a headmaster. The schools change when the art becomes overly repetitive. I think we are coming due to change districts any time now.
Erik, Stop rubbing my nose in the whole Paris thing! I'm evious and can't wait to visit and view the art!
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