#missingscore

"That damn Shinra suit started it. Callin’ us hoodlums… shit." :|

I'm always glad to talk about my favorite artist! It's Gustave Moreau (19th-century French Symbolist). I love so many things about his paintings: the mythological subjects, the androgynous figures, the intricate detail of his drawing style, the way everything looks encrusted with jewels, and the way the figures look dreamlike and serene, yet there often seems to be something decadent or sinister happening.

Also, the Moreau Museum (in the artist's home) is kind of a magical place, with its spiral staircases and floor-to-ceiling paintings and cabinets full of drawings and watercolors. When I lived in Paris last year for research I literally spent days there. I was actually just typing a quote from the Surrealist André Breton who dreamed of breaking in at night “to intercept the messages fluttering from the Suitors to the [Apparition], exactly half-way between the outer eye and the white-hot inner eye.”