Symbolism

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Symbolism was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement that emphasized dreams, emotions, and ideas through metaphorical and often mystical imagery rather than direct representation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
cultural movement
literary movement
developedFrom Romanticism
hasCharacteristic emphasis on dreams
emphasis on emotions
emphasis on ideas
interest in spirituality
interest in the occult
rejection of naturalism
rejection of realism
suggestive rather than descriptive representation
use of metaphorical imagery
use of mystical imagery
hasCountryOfOrigin Belgium
France
hasField decorative arts
literature
music
theatre
visual arts
hasInfluenceOn Aestheticism
Art Nouveau
Decadentism
surface form: Decadent movement

Expressionism
Modernism
Surrealism
hasKeyConcept correspondences between senses
subjective experience
suggestion over statement
synesthesia
hasKeyFigure Arthur Rimbaud
Aubrey Beardsley
Charles Baudelaire
Edvard Munch
Fernand Khnopff
Gustav Klimt
Gustave Moreau
Jean Moréas
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Maurice Maeterlinck
Odilon Redon
Paul Gauguin
Paul Verlaine
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Stéphane Mallarmé
W.B. Yeats
surface form: W. B. Yeats
hasKeyText Symbolist Manifesto
hasTimePeriod fin de siècle
late 19th century
opposedTo naturalism
realism in art
relatedTo Aestheticism
surface form: Aesthetic movement

Decadentism
surface form: Decadent movement

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Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Guillaume Apollinaire
painting "Terror Antiquus" movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Terror Antiquus
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Paul Valéry
Ugolino and His Sons movement Symbolism
La Porte de l'Enfer movement Symbolism
Hodler movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Ferdinand Hodler
The Night movement Symbolism
The Day movement Symbolism
Eurythmy movement Symbolism
The Chosen One movement Symbolism
View to Infinity movement Symbolism
The Woodcutter movement Symbolism
The Vision of Ezekiel movement Symbolism
Partage de midi movement Symbolism
Mallarmé family movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Stéphane Mallarmé
Toorop movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Jan Toorop
The Three Brides movement Symbolism
Mikalojus movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Sonata of the Sea movement Symbolism
Sonata of the Sun movement Symbolism
The Zodiac cycle movement Symbolism
Frank movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Frank Brangwyn
Boznańska movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Olga Boznańska
Ernst Stöhr movement Symbolism
Charles Walter Stetson movement Symbolism
Paul Delvaux movement Symbolism
John Davidson movement Symbolism
Apparition movement Symbolism
Contes cruels includes the story "L’Intersigne" movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
Hope movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Hope (painting)
Love and Death movement Symbolism
Choosing movement Symbolism
The Minotaur movement Symbolism
Ary Renan movement Symbolism