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Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire 's Les Fleurs du ...
Symbolist painting. Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895), by Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris. Symbolist painting was one of the main artistic manifestations of symbolism, a cultural movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century in France and developed in several European countries. The beginning of this current was in poetry ...
Color symbolism. Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different ...
Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism. Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Russian symbolism, the Russian branch of the symbolist movement in European art. Symbol, something that represents, stands for or suggests an idea, belief ...
Horse symbolism. The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Aster. Symbol of love, daintiness, [4] talisman of love, trusting; cheerfulness in old age [8] Astragalus. Your presence softens my pain [5][2] Azalea. Take care, temperance, [2][5][8] fragile, gratitude, passion, Chinese symbols of womanhood [4] Baby's breath.
Symbolic culture is a domain of objective facts whose existence depends, paradoxically, on collective belief. A currency system, for example, exists only for as long as people continue to have faith in it. When confidence in monetary facts collapses, the "facts" themselves suddenly disappear. Much the same applies to citizenship, government ...
The rainbow has found a place in the mythological systems of many cultures. It is sometimes personified as a deity, such as the Greco-Roman messenger goddess Iris, or the Aboriginal Australian Rainbow Serpent. In Albanian folk beliefs the rainbow is regarded as the belt of the goddess Prende, and oral legend has it that anyone who jumps over ...