Our Souls in Slow Gestures
1899
Maurice Denis, a pioneer of the Symbolist movement, created this dreamy scene in 1899 that feels like a visual poem come to life. The title, 'Our souls in slow gestures,' quotes the poet Paul Verlaine and perfectly matches the melancholic mood: one woman gazes into a mirror while the other rests her head in a pensive sigh. Notice the decorative, patterned tablecloth—it shows Denis's famous belief that a picture is primarily a flat surface covered in colors, a radical idea that helped pave the way for modern art.
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- Color lithograph
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