His portraits aren’t simple likenesses, but personal narratives which can be difficult to read now because loss of their context.
symbolism
Brilliant paintings of Poles exiled to Siberia, Thanatos as a woman, Medusa, and the story of Tobias and the angel.
Brilliantly coloured butterflies and flowers, Buddha, and a small sailing boat were among recurrent themes in his later work.
It was his charcoal drawings and prints which first started showing weird chimeras. They then migrated to his canvas in strange but exquisite paintings.
His late paintings were a mixture of symbolism and classical myth. Prominent are murals and a mosaic in the Library of Congress.
Mainly paintings of classical mythology, including Marsyas Enchanting the Hares, and several developed from his illustrations for The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Dividing his life between New York and Rome, by 1870 he was painting Symbolist masterpieces and superb landscapes in Italy.
Thirteen paintings tracing The Creation of the World, made in 1905-06 by this Lithuanian composer and painter.
A musical prodigy, he was synaesthetic, and studied painting after he had trained in music. A true Symbolist.
He developed a fascination for the form of the agave plant, and painted a series of figurative works showing ladies in a fictional country estate.
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