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  2. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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    Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer was an academic painter who synthesized Impressionist technique with Symbolist themes, especially in his fantastic scenes; he was also a portraitist and landscape painter. In his work stands out the chromatic harmony and the idealization of the represented subjects, in which the influence of the music of Beethoven , Fauré ...

  3. Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia

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    The symbolist painters were an important influence on expressionism and surrealism in painting, two movements which descend directly from symbolism proper. The harlequins , paupers, and clowns of Pablo Picasso 's " Blue Period " show the influence of symbolism, and especially of Puvis de Chavannes .

  4. George Frederic Watts - Wikipedia

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    George Frederic Watts OM RA (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the ...

  5. Caspar David Friedrich - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Caspar David Friedrich, Gerhard von Kügelgen c. 1810–1820. Caspar David Friedrich (German: [ˌkaspaʁ ˌdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] ⓘ; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the ...

  6. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis - Wikipedia

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    There are other musical paintings such as diptych "Prelude and Fugue" (1908), "Prelude. Fugue" (1908), as well as triptych's "Fantasy" (1908) middle part of Fugue. M. K. Čiurlionis pays a lot of attention to Lithuania's past culture and nature of his homeland. Like creating music, when painting he looks for inspiration in folk art and culture.

  7. Charles Baudelaire - Wikipedia

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    Baudelaire was born in Paris, France, on 9 April 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. [5] His father, Joseph-François Baudelaire (1759–1827), [6] a senior civil servant and amateur artist, who at 60, was 34 years older than Baudelaire's 26-year-old mother, Caroline (née Dufaÿs) (1794–1871); she was his second wife.

  8. List of paintings by Gustav Klimt - Wikipedia

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    For its evanescent rarefaction the love scene reveals its symbolist mould. The work is part of Klimt's series of Allegories and Emblems, whose intent was to translate life's most significant moments, and its psychological nuances, into forms of metaphorical intensity. 05: 1895 – Music I (oil on canvas, 37 cm × 44.5 cm)

  9. Paul Gauguin - Wikipedia

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    Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (/ ɡ oʊ ˈ ɡ æ n /; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.