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  2. Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia

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    The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. The symbols used by symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references. More a philosophy than an actual style of art, symbolism in painting influenced the contemporary Art Nouveau style and Les Nabis. [14]

  3. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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    Thus, there were few artists who approached Symbolism, among whom the following are worth mentioning. Jan Toorop and Johan Thorn-Prikker, as well as to a lesser extent Richard Roland Holst, who had a Symbolist phase between 1891 and 1900. [132] Other artists close to symbolism were Antoon Derkinderen, Hendrikus Jansen and Theo van Hoytema. [133]

  4. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist , groups of artists or art movement . Ancient Classical art

  5. Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History - Wikipedia

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    The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a Logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.

  6. Gustave Moreau - Wikipedia

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    It was a small, "over-confidential" exhibition, but it succeeded in getting the attention of the right curators and in 1961, no less than the Louvre Museum [28] and the Museum of Modern Art [29] mounted exhibitions of Moreau's paintings, which in turn were followed by a landmark exhibition of symbolism, Le Groupe des XX et son temps in Brussels ...

  7. Category:Symbolism (arts) - Wikipedia

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  8. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    Slightly younger Post-Impressionists like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat, along with Paul Cézanne led art to the edge of modernism; for Gauguin Impressionism gave way to a personal symbolism; Seurat transformed Impressionism's broken color into a scientific optical study, structured on frieze-like compositions; Van Gogh's ...

  9. Timeline - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Priestley's A New Chart of History, 1765. The bronze timeline "Fifteen meters of History" with background information board, Örebro, Sweden. A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. [1] It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.