His near-Impressionist style perfectly matched the texts by symbolist poets. Whistler had significant contact and exchanged ideas and ideals with Realist, Impressionist, and Symbolist painters. The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature. Auguste Rodin is sometimes considered a symbolist sculptor. The films of German expressionism owe a great deal to symbolist imagery. He was influential among French symbolist painters, from 1889. The period also witnessed the arrival into art criticism of Symbolist poet Theodor Cornel. The symbolist aesthetic also influenced Aleksandr Scriabin's compositions. Balachov's attack on the painting was applauded by Symbolist poet Maximilian Voloshin. The symbolist aesthetic affected the works of Claude Debussy. He then created his stage name, a reference to the French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. Moreau's paintings appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists. Alma-Tadema's work has been linked with that of European Symbolist painters. His paintings began to obtain a mystical and symbolist character.