Symbolism

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art movement cultural movement literary movement

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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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
European Symbolism	1
Symbolism (art movement)	1
Symbolism (in painting)	1
Symbolism (literature)	1

Statements (54)

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

Referenced by (89)

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Edvard Munch → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Edward Burne-Jones → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Evelyn De Morgan → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Fernand Khnopff → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Gabriele D'Annunzio → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Gabriele Rapagnetta → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

subject surface form: Gabriele D'Annunzio

Galaktion Tabidze → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Georges Lacombe → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Georges Seurat → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Gustav Klimt → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Gustave Moreau → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

James Ensor → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Jean Moréas → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Joris-Karl Huysmans → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Jules Laforgue → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Lado Gudiashvili → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Les Nabis → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Les Pèlerins d’Emmaüs → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Maurice Maeterlinck → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Odilon Redon → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Pablo Picasso → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Paul Gauguin → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Paul Verlaine → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Self-Portrait with Portrait of Paul Gauguin → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Simeon Solomon → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Stéphane Mallarmé → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Symbolist Manifesto → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

The Thinker → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

The Yellow Christ → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

W.B. Yeats → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Émile Bernard → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Émile Schuffenecker → movement → Symbolism ⓘ

Synthetism → relatedConcept → Symbolism ⓘ

Expressionism → relatedMovement → Symbolism ⓘ

Intimism → relatedToMovement → Symbolism ⓘ

Jacob Meyer de Haan → style → Symbolism ⓘ