Moreau, Gustave (1826-1898). French painter, one of the leading Symbolist
artists. He was a pupil of Chassйriau and was influenced by his master’s exotic
Romanticism, but Moreau went far beyond him in his feeling for the bizarre and
developed a style that is highly distinctive in subject and technique.
His
preference was for mystically intense images evoking long-dead civilizations
and mythologies, treated with an extraordinary sensuousness, his paint
encrusted and jewel-like. Although he had some success at the Salon, he had no
need to court this as he had private means, and much of his life was spent in
seclusion.
In 1892 he
became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and proved an inspired teacher,
bringing out his pupils’ individual talents rather than trying to impose ideas
on them. His pupils included Marquet and Matisse, but his favorite was Rouault,
who became the first curator of the Moreau Museum in Paris (the artist’s
house), which Moreau left to the nation on his death. The bulk of his work is
preserved there.
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