First artist who was kind of adopted
by the symbolists poets and artists called them that. I love this because in
the background, he could spend all his time painting all of the shadows and colums
but instead he cut it into the paint. I love that he uses a different medium in
his painting.
The picture is of Herod’s Daughter,
Solome and John the Baptist’s head. The story behind this is that Herod told
Solome that if she would dance at the 7 veils, he would give her whatever she
wants. She wanted the head of John the Baptist on a platter. John the Baptist
was in prison, so they decapitated him and brought it to her at her birthday
celebration. In this piece of art the head had appeared to her to punish her
for what she did. cgh
Jean Moreas's said that symbolism was the model
to be treasured. The idea of this movement was the physical world isn’t the
real reality we think it is, but a reflection of the unseen. Edgar Allan Poe,
and Joris Karl Huysmans, and also, the Gothic and Romanticism style, played a
big part in influencing art at the time. “Painters based their imagery on
magical, sacred and occasionally mythological themes.”
http://www.historyofpainters.com/moreau.htm
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