Marie Gabriel Mourey (23 September 1865 â€" 10 February 1943) was a
French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, translator and art
critic.Gabriel Mourey was born 23 September 1865 in Marseille, the son
of Louis-Félix Mourey, a druggist, and Amélie-Madeleine
Roche-Latilla.[1]He began his career as a poet at the age of seventeen
with the collection Voix éparses (1883) published in the Librairie
des bibliophiles by Jules Rouam (Paris).[2] In March 1884, he launched
Mireille, revue des poètes marseillais, with Raoul Russel, which had
eight deliveries.For the Parisian publisher Camille Dalou, he
published his first translation from English, the Poésies complètes
de Edgar Allan Poe (1889) with a preface by Joséphin Péladan; He
subsequently translated poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. From then
on, the poet approached the symbolist trend and became friend with
Claude Debussy, and met in Edmond Bailly's Librairie de l'art
indépendant, the "master of the dream" Stéphane Mallarmé, of whom
he attended the "Tuesdays of the Rue de Rome".[3] The following year,
he published his first essay of art criticism, Les Arts de la vie et
le règne de la laideur at Paul Ollendorff [fr], a rather reactionary
essay that denounced impressionism, the realistic or naturalist drifts
of painting, and which was more on the side of William Morris, the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and John Ruskin, and in which he affirmed
that "it is the spirit of anarchism that reigns in France in the
artistic movement... a need for destruction, a sort of delirium that
wants to abolish everything that exists."[4] Mourey was much more open
during the following decades; he was commissioned by the Ministry of
Fine Arts from 1895 onwards, and served as a link between the emerging
English, Italian, Russian and Parisian decorative arts, and then
saluted the advent of the Art Nouveau style. He wrote for catalogs of
the Bing gallery and the Maison moderne, defended Albert Besnard,
Felix Borchardt [fr], Auguste Rodin, Edmond Aman-Jean, Edgar Chahine,
etc.
French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, translator and art
critic.Gabriel Mourey was born 23 September 1865 in Marseille, the son
of Louis-Félix Mourey, a druggist, and Amélie-Madeleine
Roche-Latilla.[1]He began his career as a poet at the age of seventeen
with the collection Voix éparses (1883) published in the Librairie
des bibliophiles by Jules Rouam (Paris).[2] In March 1884, he launched
Mireille, revue des poètes marseillais, with Raoul Russel, which had
eight deliveries.For the Parisian publisher Camille Dalou, he
published his first translation from English, the Poésies complètes
de Edgar Allan Poe (1889) with a preface by Joséphin Péladan; He
subsequently translated poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. From then
on, the poet approached the symbolist trend and became friend with
Claude Debussy, and met in Edmond Bailly's Librairie de l'art
indépendant, the "master of the dream" Stéphane Mallarmé, of whom
he attended the "Tuesdays of the Rue de Rome".[3] The following year,
he published his first essay of art criticism, Les Arts de la vie et
le règne de la laideur at Paul Ollendorff [fr], a rather reactionary
essay that denounced impressionism, the realistic or naturalist drifts
of painting, and which was more on the side of William Morris, the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and John Ruskin, and in which he affirmed
that "it is the spirit of anarchism that reigns in France in the
artistic movement... a need for destruction, a sort of delirium that
wants to abolish everything that exists."[4] Mourey was much more open
during the following decades; he was commissioned by the Ministry of
Fine Arts from 1895 onwards, and served as a link between the emerging
English, Italian, Russian and Parisian decorative arts, and then
saluted the advent of the Art Nouveau style. He wrote for catalogs of
the Bing gallery and the Maison moderne, defended Albert Besnard,
Felix Borchardt [fr], Auguste Rodin, Edmond Aman-Jean, Edgar Chahine,
etc.
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