Tribute to Gustave Moreau

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium).

The surrealistic painting close to non-figurative art is devoted to an admirer of ancient Greek art, a beautiful colorist, French artist Gustave Moreau. His almost academic art had a great influence on the Fauves and the Surrealists. Felix Labisse fills the entire vertically oriented canvas with slender multi-colored tree trunks, the crowns of which the viewer cannot see. On the bark of fantastic plants, transparent drops shine like precious jewelry. What it is – resin (including blue and emerald), dew, tears or raindrops – we can only guess by using our imagination.