Editing Gustave Moreau (section)

===Moreau and surrealism===
[[File:Paris Musee Gustave-Moreau 4.jpg|thumb|230 px|The upper level of the Musée national Gustave-Moreau, once Moreau's home and studio. It was converted into a museum shortly before the artist's death.]]

[[André Breton]] famously used to "haunt" the museum and regarded Moreau as a precursor of [[Surrealism]]. In his ''[[Manifesto of Surrealism]]'', he listed forerunners of the movement, poets and painters who "could pass for Surrealist", and included Moreau with [[Picasso]], [[de Chirico]], and a short list of other examples.<ref name="Breton (1924)">Breton, André. 1924 [Translated by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. 1972.] ''Manifestos of Surrealism.'' Ann Arbor Paperbacks, The University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 304 pp.{{ISBN|0-472-06182-8}}</ref>{{rp|26–27 p.}} Breton wrote in 1961: "My discovery of the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris when I was sixteen years old shaped my likes and loves for the rest of my life. It was there, in certain women's faces and figures, that I had the revelation of beauty and love."<ref name="Picon (1977)">Picon, Gaëtan. 1977. ''Surrealists and Surrealism, 1919-1939.'' Editions D'Art Albert Skira, Geneva/Rizzoli International Publishing, Inc. New York. 231 pp. {{ISBN|0-8478-0041-5}}</ref>{{rp|29 p.}} [[Georges Bataille]] wrote enthusiastically of his work, calling him a precursor of surrealism.<ref name="Bataille (1961)">Bataille, Georges. 1961. ''Gustave Moreau l'attardé, précurseur de surréalisme.'' Arts, 825:7-13.</ref> [[Salvador Dalí]] was also a great admirer of Moreau's work and a regular visitor to the Gustave Moreau Museum: "To those I love, I recommend visiting the Museum, going and plunging into this twilight world where, risen from the gulf of erotic and scatological obsession, constellations of precious stones float like so many promises of archangelical redemption."<ref name="Dali and Pauwels (1968)">Dalí, Salvador, and Louis Pauwels. 1968. ''Les Passions selon Dalí.'' Denoel, Paris. 132-133 pp.</ref> It was at the Gustave Moreau Museum in 1970 that Dalí (holding a wax replica of his own head on a silver platter) chose to make the public announcement of his plans to open his own museum, [[Teatro-Museo Dalí]], in [[Figueras]], Spain. [[Max Ernst]] is known to have used reproductions of Moreau's work on occasion to create collages.<ref name="Mathieu (1994)" />{{rp|268–269 p.}}

Andre Breton advocated for Moreau's work throughout his life, whenever he had the opportunity, in his writings, and introduced other writers and artists to the museum in Paris.<ref name="Cassou (1979)" />{{rp|110 p.}}<ref name="Mathieu (1994)" />{{rp|223 p.}} At a time when Moreau and symbolism had largely drifted into obscurity, Breton sponsored an exhibition of symbolist drawings in Paris, at the Dateau-Lavoir Gallery in 1958. The exhibit has been identified as a significant event in re-establishing recognition of Moreau's work. It was a small, "over-confidential" exhibition, but it succeeded in getting the attention of the right curators and in 1961, no less than the [[Louvre Museum]]<ref name="Cassou et al (1961)">Jean Cassou, Jean Paladhile, and Ragnar van Holten. 1961. ''Gustave Moreau: Deuxième édition, revue et corrigée.'' Musée du Louvre, Éditions des Musées Nationaux. Paris. 64pp.</ref> and the [[Museum of Modern Art]]<ref name="Rewald et al. (1961)">Rewald, John, Harold Joachim, and Dore Ashton. 1961. ''Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin.'' Museum of Modern Art / Art Institute of Chicago / Doubleday, New York. 184 pp.</ref> mounted exhibitions of Moreau's paintings, which in turn were followed by a landmark exhibition of symbolism, ''Le Groupe des XX et son temps'' in Brussels in 1962. By the 1970s, exhibitions and monographs on Moreau and symbolism were appearing with some regularity.<ref name="Delevoy (1978)" />{{rp|11 p.}}

The Japanese artist [[Yoshitaka Amano]], known for works such as ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', ''[[Angel's Egg]]'', and ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]'', was inspired by Moreau's style. Amano said in an interview that when he was first experimenting with styles to try to find his own, he would try to mimic the works of Moreau.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.destructoid.com/this-mini-documentary-makes-me-love-yoshitaka-amano-even-more-469313.phtml|title=This mini-documentary makes me love Yoshitaka Amano even more|date=27 October 2017}}</ref>