Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness.
The volume reproduces and describes in detail more than 200 of Moreau's works, ranging from such well-known paintings as Orpheus and The Apparition (one of his many treatments of Salome and the beheaded John the Baptist) to lesser known but revealing watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Two particularly important paintings--Oedipus and the Sphinx and Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra--are the focus of longer descriptions that cast light on Moreau's working methods. Geneviève Lacambre, Director of the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris, introduces the volume and contributes an essay about Moreau's passionate interest in the "exoticism" of other cultures, particularly those of Persia and India. Marie-Laure de Contenson describes the artist's powerful attraction to medieval art and aesthetics. Larry Feinberg shows that Moreau was deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance and, in particular, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Douglas Druick writes about Moreau's evocative symbolic language, which drew on unique reinterpretations of mythical figures and events to convey the artist's anxieties about the immorality and materialism of his age.
This is a powerfully written and visually stunning record of the creativity and exquisite craftsmanship of Moreau's distinctive contributions to nineteenth-century art.
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"The book is admirable, and magnificently produced. The colour plates are first-class. . . ."--Bevis Hillier, The Spectator
"The French painter Gustave Moreau was a visionary who resisted getting swept up in the late-19th-century tides of naturalism and Impressionism and pursued instead his own version of an epic past. . . . Gustave Moreau . . . examines Moreau's amazingly varied influences. . . . The many excerpts from Moreau's own writings give the reader the clearest idea of what he aspired to. . . ."--Suzanne MacNeille, The New York Times Book Review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau
http://www.musee-moreau.fr/
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这本选集的编排方式,巧妙地运用了对照与重复的手法,构建了一个非常清晰的叙事弧线。我特别欣赏那些并置的、主题相似但风格迥异的作品对比——比如将一幅早期对《萨乐美》的粗粝描绘,紧挨着他后期某张带有装饰艺术风格的最终定稿。这种并置,简直是一堂活生生的艺术史课,清晰地展示了风格的演变轨迹、技法的精进过程,以及艺术家对同一母题不同阶段的心理解读。它不仅仅是作品的堆砌,更像是对艺术家内心世界的阶段性解剖。通过这种对比,我得以清晰地追踪他如何从一个受古典主义熏陶的浪漫主义者,蜕变成一个完全服务于个人、构建了属于自己宇宙的象征主义大师。这中间的每一次选择和放弃,都通过画面的细微差异被清晰地记录下来了。
评分与之前那些浓墨重彩的作品形成鲜明对比的是,其中收录的一些晚期水彩和插画作品,展现出了一种截然不同的、近乎冥想般的宁静。虽然主题依然围绕着寓言和炼金术的符号,但笔触变得极其轻盈,如同薄雾笼罩下的幻象。水彩的晕染效果使得物象的边界变得模糊不清,仿佛一切都处于一种物质与非物质的交界点。我注意到,在这些作品中,对“光”的描绘变得更加内敛和抽象,不再是戏剧性的聚光灯效果,而是源自画面深处的、微弱的、似乎随时会熄灭的内在之光。这种转变让我开始思考:这位艺术家是否在人生的后期,逐渐放弃了对世俗感官刺激的追求,转而试图捕捉那些更加转瞬即逝、难以言喻的精神体验?这种平静的深邃,比早期的喧嚣更令人久久不能忘怀。
评分接下来的篇幅,简直是一场视觉的盛宴,充斥着强烈的颓废美学和病态的华丽感。色彩的运用达到了令人窒息的程度,那些宝石般的深红、苔藓般的墨绿,以及常年不见阳光的室内才会有的那种幽暗的金色,层层叠叠地堆积在画布上。我被其中一幅描绘古代神话场景的作品深深吸引,画面中的人物不再是传统意义上的英雄或神祇,他们像是身处永恒的梦魇之中,眼神迷离,肌肤呈现出一种非自然的、蜡质的光泽。细节的处理达到了近乎病态的程度,每一片褶皱、每一根发丝、甚至空气中悬浮的尘埃,都被赋予了某种神秘的叙事功能。你几乎能闻到画面中弥漫的香料和腐朽的气息。这不是在描绘一个故事,而是在营造一种氛围——一种对逝去辉煌和不可抗拒的衰败的迷恋。每一次呼吸似乎都与画布上的光影变化同步,令人感到既兴奋又有些许的晕眩。
评分这本厚重的画册,甫一捧起,便被那纸张的质感所摄。墨香与微微的陈旧气息混合,像是一张通往另一个时代的门票。我翻开扉页,首先映入眼帘的是一组早期素描习作,线条的力度和对光影的捕捉,那种少年老成、近乎偏执的描摹欲,让人立刻感受到创作者内心的汹涌暗流。它们并非完美的学院派展示,而是充满了挣扎与探索的痕迹,笔触间那些微妙的犹豫和突然的果决,构成了一种独特的张力。尤其是对人体结构的处理,可以看到他对古典传统的深刻理解,但同时又在试图挣脱某种束缚,将人物的姿态推向一种近乎病态的、充满象征意味的扭曲。我花了近一个小时,仅仅在研究这些基础草图的演变轨迹,它们是理解后续那些华丽、繁复的油画作品的基石,揭示了表面光鲜之下,艺术家内心对形式与精神双重探索的艰辛历程。这种从零开始的剖析,远比直接欣赏成品来得震撼。
评分装帧设计本身也值得单独称赞。它不是那种追求轻薄便携的平庸之作,而是充满了对内容的敬意。书脊的厚度,纸张的克重,以及对一些复杂色彩的印刷还原度,都体现了出版方对这位艺术家独特的审美光谱的理解。尤其是那些涉及到镀金或复杂纹理的插图,即便是在印刷媒介上,也努力捕捉到了原作中那种微妙的、反光的质感,这在许多同类画册中是很难做到的。捧着它,感觉就像是在维护一件珍贵的文物。它不只是知识的载体,更像是一个实体化的“观想对象”,让那些在世时常常被误解或忽视的精妙之处,得以在今天,以一种坚实、无可辩驳的方式呈现在我们眼前,迫使我们放慢速度,去重新校准我们对十九世纪末艺术复杂性的认知。
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评分preparatory drawings很不错
评分preparatory drawings很不错
评分preparatory drawings很不错
评分preparatory drawings很不错
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