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Finally, it is worth mentioning an artist outside the Symbolist movement but whose style has a certain link with it: Henri Rousseau, maximum representative of the so-called Naïve art, a term applied to a series of self-taught painters who developed a spontaneous style, alien to the technical and aesthetic principles of traditional painting ...
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.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) [1] was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 .
It was a common practice at the time for poets to paraphrase in verse paintings they admired, and the paintings of Gustave Moreau were among the most lauded of the symbolist poets. Théodore de Banville , José Maria de Heredia , Claudius Popelin , Jean Lorrain , Henri Cazalis , and others wrote of Moreau's work in poetry.
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.