Moreau defined painting as “this language of symbol, myth and sign”, and this is his greatest expression of that.
Péladan
He became an ‘Artist of the Soul’, continuing to paint Symbolist motifs, including some drawn from Les Fleurs du Mal, but little after 1908.
He started his career designing Art Nouveau wallpaper, then progressed to book illustration, including Baudelaire’s notorious
poems.
