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Symbolism (art)

Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895), by Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
The Cyclops (1914), by Odilon Redon, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Pornocrates, by Félicien Rops. From 1878; Etching and aquatint were used to make that art.
La Vetta, 1912, clearly symbolist work by the painter Cesare Saccaggi from Tortona.
La Vetta, 1912, clearly symbolist work by the painter Cesare Saccaggi from Tortona.

Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin. The movement rejected realism and naturalism, and included poetry and other arts. Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths that could only be described indirectly.[1]

In literature, the style started with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into French, were a significant influence; It was also the source of many tropes and images.[2] Symbolism in art is related to the gothic component of Romanticism.[1]

Charles Baudelaire, one of the most important symbolist poet

Origin of the name: The name symbolist was first used (1886) by the critic Jean Moréas; He invented that name to make a distinguish between symbolists and (other) people from styles of literature and art, that are similar.[3]

  1. ↑ A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself, often of a more abstract nature.
  2. ↑ Trope: figure of speech, device, theme.
  3. ↑ Jean Moreas 1886. Le Manifeste du Symbolisme, Le Figaro.
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