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Indepth Arts News:
"Last Week! Gustave Moreau - Between Epic and Dream"
1999-06-01 until 1999-08-22
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, ,
USA United States of America
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of French
artist Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), The Metropolitan Museum
of Art is presenting a major exhibition -- the largest
retrospective of Moreaus work ever shown in the United
States -- featuring masterpieces from every phase of his
distinguished career. Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and
Dream includes nearly 175 works -- some 40 paintings and 60
watercolors in addition to drawings and preparatory studies,
lent primarily from the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris, with
other works drawn from public and private collections in
Europe and America.
Best known for his mysterious and complex allegorical
paintings based on classical, literary, and biblical sources,
Moreau was much admired in his own day. His fantastic,
dream-like imagery and emphasis on the personal and intuitive
nature of artistic creation profoundly influenced later 19th- and
20th-century artists -- not only his students Georges Rouault,
Albert Marquet, and Henri Matisse, but also the Symbolists
and Surrealists. Spanning 50 years of this remarkable artists
career, the exhibition includes the majority of Moreaus most
celebrated Salon paintings, as well as many watercolors and
drawings that have not previously been exhibited or even
published.
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