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  2. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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    The Nightmare (1781), by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always ...

  3. Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia

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    In Belgium, symbolism became so popular that it came to be known as a national style, particularly in landscape painting: [34] the static strangeness of painters like René Magritte can be considered as a direct continuation of symbolism. The work of some symbolist visual artists, such as Jan Toorop, directly affected the curvilinear forms of ...

  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. Gustav Klimt - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.

  6. Gustave Moreau - Wikipedia

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    He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele." [2]: 147 p.

  7. 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)

  8. Category:Symbolist painters - Wikipedia

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    German Symbolist painters (17 P) M. Edvard Munch (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Symbolist painters" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total.

  9. Category:Symbolist paintings - Wikipedia

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    Paintings of the Symbolism movement — an very early Modern art movement of the late 19th century. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.