Artist Series Episode 84: Dante Gabriel Rossetti — Lush Symbolism, Poetic Seduction, and a Wombat Problem
Rossetti mixed poetry, paint, beauty, scandal, and one famous wombat into Victorian art. Somehow, the story gets stranger…
Symbolism
Episode 65: Odilon Redon, or How to Paint a Floating Eyeball and Still Look Deeply Spiritual
A floating eye, haunted flowers, and one of art history’s dreamiest weirdos walk into a Symbolist garden and then…
Episode 64: Gustave Moreau, or How to Paint a Mythological Fever Dream and Still Look Academically Respectable
Gustave Moreau painted myths like jeweled fever dreams, and the results are stranger, richer, and shinier than expected…