... history of the Western arts is tellingly illustrated by an anecdote related much later by Mirra, then called the Mother, to the children of the Ashram. It was about a painter ‘who was a pupil of Gustave Moreau. He really was an excellent artist, he knew his art through and through, but he went hungry and did not know how to make both ends meet.’ (Mirra herself lived in rather straitened circumstances... and make you famous.”’ 3 And famous he has become! For all indications point to the fact that the painter in question was Henri Matisse: he was well known to Mirra; he had been a pupil of Gustave Moreau; the incident occurred ‘around the time of the World Exhibition in 1900’, and Fauvism made its appearance in 1898 and had its first formal exhibition in 1905; and ‘if I would tell you his name... Rouge and the Grand Guignol … all that in the cultural capital of the world, Paris. That was where Mirra lived. When she was nineteen she married a painter, Henri Morisset, also a pupil of Gustave Moreau. A year later their son André was born. Henri Morisset was a talented painter, but not talented enough to have his name mentioned in the Petit Larousse or for one of his canvasses to be hung ...
... Once, in 1951, someone asked Mother why modern art was so ugly. In reply, Mother, in her inimitable way, told us the following story. "I knew a painter who was a student of Gustave Moreau's." Gustave Moreau (1826-98) had his first success in the Salon of 1864; he, Puvis de Chavanne and Redon are considered as the principal exponents of Symbolism in painting. Puvis de Chavannes' (1824-98) style... praise from Mother. Matisse, the leader of the 'Fauve' group, Marquet, Rouault, Desvallière were some of the students in Moreau's studio. Redon, Dali and a few others were greatly influenced by Gustave Moreau. Mother said: "I knew a painter who was a student of Gustave Moreau's, truly he was a very good artist, he knew perfectly well his technique, but then ... he went hungry, he did not know how ...
... have met Henri, already a painter of established reputation, in one of the many places where the artists’ crowd met. He had actually visited the Julian Academy while he was a student of the famous Gustave Moreau at the Beaux-Arts. Henri and Mirra married on 13 October 1897 in a civil ceremony in the town hall of the VIIIth Arrondissement. They went to live at 15 Rue Lemercier, behind the Porte de Clichy... amusing, but he would all the same have preferred to find his clay models unscathed.’ 18 Another artist Mirra seems to have known well was Henri Matisse. He had, after all, been a student of Gustave Moreau at the Beaux-Arts at the same time as Henri Morisset. She had a very high opinion of Matisse as a painter, and she also bears witness to an important moment in the rapid evolution of Post-Impressionist ...
... Mother or The Divine Materialism - I 6: From Art to Matter She was to enter the “artists life” at nineteen by marrying Henri Morisset, a pupil of Gustave Moreau and a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It seems odd to speak of an “artist’s life” for Her who had so many various lives present in her memory or living before her eyes—now glittering, now... played with everything— which understood so well what the others were seizing, clawing, kneading or tearing apart on their canvas or in stone. Like Morisset, like Rouault, Matisse was a student of Gustave Moreau, and She would know them all, as well as the old Impressionists—Renoir, Degas, the last days of Sisley, Signac, and the one who never painted his plates round (Cezanne). But he was right! 3 ...
... and studied would explain nothing. Her need to know led her into two directions. The first was the world of painting. She mingled with the artists and widened her horizons. She married a pupil of Gustave Moreau, Henri Morisset, and she came to know Rodin and the great impressionists of that era. The second direction in which she turned was opened up when she heard of Max Theon and his teachings. At ...
... studied would explain nothing. Her need to know led her into two directions. The first was the world of painting. She mingled with the artists and widened her horizons. She married a pupil of Gustave Moreau, Henri Morisset, and she came to know Rodin and the great impressionists of that era. The second direction in which she turned was opened up when she heard of Max Theon and his teachings. ...
... Paris on February 21, 1878, in a very materialistic, upper middle class family. She completed a thorough education of music, painting and higher mathematics. A student of the French painter Gustave Moreau, she befriended the great Impressionist artists of the time. She later became acquainted with Max Theon, an enigmatic character with extraordinary occult powers who, for the first time, gave ...
... to Beauty, conquers pain and sorrow. On a visit to the castle Blois, Beaugency, gets a sudden glimpse into one of her past lives. 1897 Oct 13 Marries Henri Morisset, a student of artist Gustave Moreau. She was introduced to him by Mira Ismalun, who had known his father, artist Henri Edouard Morisset. They live at 15, rue Lemerçier, Paris. 1898 Assists Morisset in painting murals (extant) ...
... (She especially liked portraits; human faces were a far greater enigma to her than pharaohs or mathematics), and this is how She came to meet Henri Morisset, her future husband, a young student of Gustave Moreau and Rouault’s classmate, to whom She had been introduced by her amazing grandmother, who continued to dash about the capital under Mathilde’s uneasy eye. As might have been suspected, Mira Ismalun ...
... Penseur of Rodin on the Runner-up Cards signifies the necessity of reflection to perfect means for a better result. Page 288 ( Concerning the painting "Oedipus and the Sphinx" by Gustave Moreau, reproduced on the Gymnastics Competition Award Card ) The Riddle of the World If you can solve it, you will be immortal, but if you fail you will perish. Page 289 ...
... the end. One revises following a certain current, then when one has reached the end, one enters another current, and then... It's endless. I knew a painter like that; he was a great painter: Gustave Moreau. But there are few paintings by him, because he was a man who kept doing his paintings over again. He would progress, his vision would progress, and his painting would always appear to him to be ...
... Achilles to Troy conveyed at the dawn by a messenger, "carrying Fate in his helpless hands and the doom of an empire." Eight books are Page 30 Apollo ( Detail of a painting by Gustave Moreau ) Page 31 entitled respectively, The Book of the Herald; The Book of the Statesman; The Book of the Assembly; The Book of Partings; The Book of Achilles; The Book of the Chieftains; ...
... claiming the apple, the task was given to Paris, the Trojan Prince, to judge which of these goddesses ought to receive the golden apple. Page 14 Helen on the remparts of Troy by Gustave Moreau Page 15 Hera promised to give Paris rule over Asia and Europe; Athena promised heroism and victory; and Aphrodite promised love, in the person of the lovely Helen. Although Paris ...
... Cezanne and others. She also developed a deep and abiding interest in music and played the organ with an inspired touch. In October 1897 Mirra married Henri Morisset, a disciple of the painter Gustave Moreau. Their son, Andre, was born the following year in August. The next few years of her life were spent in a creative environment of highly gifted artists. It was an experience that enabled her to ...
... in Paris on February 21, 1878, in a very materialistic, upper middle class family. She completed a thorough education of music, painting and higher mathematics. A student of the French painter Gustave Moreau, she befriended the great Impressionist artists of the time. She later became acquainted Page 510 with Max Theon, an enigmatic character with extraordinary occult powers who, for ...
... he says, it is the current taste". This is probably a reference to the painter mentioned by the Mother in her talk of 9 April 1951 at the Ashram Playground: I knew a painter, a disciple of Gustave Moreau; he was truly a very fine artist, he knew his work quite well, and then... he was starving.... One day, a friend intending to help him, sent a picture-dealer to see him... he showed him all the ...
... future; she met Sri Aurobindo “in a dream” ten years before going to Pondicherry and took him for “a Hindu god dressed in the costume of a vision.” Mathematician, painter and pianist, she befriended Gustave Moreau, Rodin, Monet and married a painter whom she later divorced. She then married a philosopher who took her to Japan and China, at the time when Mao Tse-tung was writing “The Great Union of the Popular ...
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