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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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    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 .

  4. Personification - Wikipedia

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    These appear in art but are often hard to identify if not labelled. [ 17 ] Personification in the Bible is mostly limited to passing phrases which can probably be regarded as literary flourishes, [ 18 ] with the important and much-discussed exception of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs , 1–9, where a female personification is treated at some ...

  5. Representation (arts) - Wikipedia

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    A personal name has an actual historical connection, often recorded on a birth certificate, to its named object; the word "this" is like the pointing of a finger. Symbol. Peirce treats symbols as habits or norms of reference and meaning. Symbols can be natural, cultural, or abstract and logical.

  6. Art - Wikipedia

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    The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines which produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and convey a message, mood, or symbolism for the perceiver to interpret (art as experience). Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas ...

  7. Symbol - Wikipedia

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    Numerals are symbols for numbers; letters of an alphabet may be symbols for certain phonemes; and personal names are symbols representing individuals. The academic study of symbols is called semiotics. In the arts, symbolism is the use of a concrete element to represent a more abstract idea.

  8. Iconography - Wikipedia

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    Iconography as an academic art historical discipline developed in the nineteenth century in the works of scholars such as Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867), Anton Heinrich Springer (1825–1891), and Émile Mâle (1862–1954) [8] all specialists in Christian religious art, which was the main focus of study in this period, in which French ...

  9. Symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Religious symbol, an iconic representation of a religion or religious concept Buddhist symbolism, the use of Buddhist art to represent certain aspects of dharma; Christian symbolism, the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity; Symbols of Islam, the use of symbols in Islamic literature, art and architecture