Question

Although associated with the Academy, Gustave Moreau’s sensuous treatment of biblical themes served as a precursor to which art movement?

Answer 1

Answer:

Symbolism

Explanation:

This is not the full question as it is missing the options. They are as following:

1. Neo-Impressionism
2. Symbolism
3. Impressionism
4. the Pre-Raphaelites

Gustave Moreau is one of the major figures of symbolism, as one of the painters that portended it.

His work had Biblical themes but represented in symbolic aspects. Desires, emotions, divinity, and mortality were painted in abstract forms and emblematic manner, full of different symbols, sometimes even reminding us of surrealism that was yet to come.