The answer is D because the others are talking about the paintings themselves and not the figures
Answer:
Symbolism
Explanation:
This is not the full question as it is missing the options. They are as following:
- Neo-Impressionism
- Symbolism
- Impressionism
- the Pre-Raphaelites
<u>Gustave Moreau is one of the major figures of symbolism, as one of the painters that portended it. </u>
His work had Biblical themes but represented in symbolic aspects. <u>Desires, emotions, divinity, and mortality were painted in abstract forms and emblematic manner, full of different symbols</u>, sometimes even reminding us of surrealism that was yet to come.
He only started painting when he was 27 years old.
His life is documented on the letters he has wrote.
Before declaring he was an artist, he attempted many other careers.
For most of his life he had a mental illness.
He cut off his own ear.
The theory of imitationalism.
