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This oil on canvas painting Oedipus and the Sphinx painted by artist Gustave Moreau. This painting is very interesting that has a riddle that goes with painting that has viewers guessing this riddle: What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? The solution is the human, who crawls as a baby, strides upright in maturity , and uses a cane in old age. -
The Love Song is a oil on canvas painting, artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones created this scene with his affair with artist and model Maria Zambaco. The picture reflects the embrace of music as a model of art that appeals directly to the emotions. -
Island of the Dead is an oil on wood based painting, artist Arnold Bocklin painted this based on Marie Berna. This commissioned this painting as a memorial to her late husband, which was considered as unfinished canvas that she saw in the artist's studio in Florence. By the request Bocklin added draped coffin and the shrouded figure the rowboat in the foreground. -
In this painting by French artist Odilon Redon he used charcoal and chalk to paint this eye-like balloon. The single eye-the all-seeing eye of God- is an old symbol, which here he transformed it. The large scale of the eye is the symbol of the spirit rising up out of the Dead matter of the swamp. He used a physical organ that looks upward toward the divine, taking with it a dead skull. -
In this painting Inter artes et naturam artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes used a medium of oil on canvas. The painting overlooks the Seine River, people paint ceramics and excavate architectural fragments while art students look on at the right. -
The Shepard's Song, artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannas painted this oil on canvas was adapted this composition from a mural that he made for the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyons. Puvis revered this painting as a epitome of beauty which pays homage to the poetry and grace of classical antiquity. -
In this oil on canvas painting done by Paul Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian canvas, to a Christian theme. This painting was inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs. -
The Siesta is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, in which the meaning of Siesta is a homage to rest and sleep. This painting scene shows Tahitian women taking a break from the heat. Representing everyday life and cultural encounters. -
In this painting artist Jan Toorop used chalk, pencil, and charcoal to show a goal that relates humans to the spiritual world. Toorop was a Dutch artist who was born in Java. This painting identifies women as the source of evil- and idea found in the work of many writers and artists of the time. This artist sets up an allegory of the three states of the soul, consisting of the bride dedicated to Christ, the bride dedicated to earthly love, and the satanic bride who appears to be Egyptian. -
This painting by Gustave Moreau, was a history painting where he used the oil paints on canvas to illustrates the myth that tells the love of Jupiter, the king of the gods and of the mortal women Semele (the embodiment of that which is earthly). Semele, mother of the gods Dionysus. This painting is a symbolic of humanity's union with the divine that ends in death. -
The First Communion painted by Eugene Carriere and oil on canvas based painting, marks a child's initisntion into the Christian Eucharist, The ritual consumption of wine and bread. Carriere uses a bold palette, with fluid brushwork. -
In this oil paint based painting artist James Ensor had an interest in masks because his mother owned a souvenir shop selling such articles as these papier mache masks worn at carnival time in Belgum. Ensor desired a return to the "pure and natural" local carnvials and festivals of his antivenin Belgium with a view toward creating cultural unity. Ensor works with a light, bright palette that suggests whimsy and absurdity at the same time that he employs a rough and textual application of paint. -
The Dance of Life painting is an oil on canvas painting done by artist Edvard Munch. In this painting Munch presents the three stages of women. The virgin symbolized by white, the carnal women of experience in red, and the aged satanic women in black. -
The Blind Man's Meal a known artist Pablo Picasso used oil on canvas to paint this painting. This work of Picasso's is a restatement of the Christian's sacrament. The ritual of tasting bread and wine to feel the flesh and blood of Christ. -
In this painting of Death and Life artist Gustav Klimt used oil on canvas. Meaning behind this painting was Death stares across the negative space as Life reveals itself in the figures who come into being and pass out of existence; they are born, live, and die as part of the great stream of life.