Red Berries (detail), 1884. Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), English. Oil on canvas.Moore was known
Red Berries (detail), 1884. Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), English. Oil on canvas.Moore was known for his depictions of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world.In all his pictures, save two or three, he avoided any approach to story-telling, and occupied himself exclusively with decorative arrangements of lines and color masses. The spirit of his art is essentially classic, and his work shows plainly that he was deeply influenced by study of antique sculpture; but he was not in any sense an archaeological painter, nor did he attempt reconstructions of the life of past centuries. -- source link
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