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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Józef Mehoffer movement Symbolism
Józef Mehoffer influenced by Symbolism
Western art includesStylePeriod Symbolism
The Apparition movement Symbolism
Jupiter and Semele movement Symbolism
Galatea movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Galatea (painting by Gustave Moreau)
Galatea movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Gustave Moreau
Hesiod and the Muses movement Symbolism
Achille-Claude movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Achille-Claude Debussy
Eve movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Eve (Rodin sculpture)
The Cathedral artMovement Symbolism
Ignacio Zuloaga influencedBy Symbolism
Bertrand-Jean Redon movement Symbolism
Henri Le Sidaner influencedBy Symbolism
Le Laudi literaryMovement Symbolism
Des Imagistes relatedMovement Symbolism
Vulaines-sur-Seine movement Symbolism
subject surface form: Stéphane Mallarmé
École de Nancy influencedBy Symbolism
Munich Secession influencedBy Symbolism
Nabi style influencedBy Symbolism
Nabi influencedBy Symbolism
Charles Cros movement Symbolism
Herbert MacNair movement Symbolism
Berlin Secession movement Symbolism
Gallé glassworks influencedBy Symbolism
Alexander Scriabin movement Symbolism
Octave Mirbeau movement Symbolism
Les XX movement Symbolism
Alexander Blok literaryMovement Symbolism
neo-Romanticism relatedTo Symbolism
subject surface form: Neo-Romanticism
Camille Claudel movement Symbolism
Physical Energy statue hasArtisticMovement Symbolism
subject surface form: Physical Energy
Henri Fantin-Latour movement Symbolism
The Kiss artMovement Symbolism
Paul Ranson movement Symbolism
Paul Ranson artisticStyle Symbolism
Paul Ranson influencedBy Symbolism
Henri-Gabriel Ibels movement Symbolism
Denis movement Symbolism
Denis influencedBy Symbolism
Arnold Böcklin movement Symbolism
Arnold Böcklin influenced Symbolism
this entity surface form: European Symbolism
Manao tupapau movement Symbolism