Symbolism

Characteristics of symbolism.

List of famous Symbolism artwork, listed alphabetically with photos when available.

Looking for some examples of symbolism? Symbolism is found in literature, poetry and life.

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

Definition, Usage and a list of Symbolism Examples in common speech and literature. Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

Symbolism (1880-1900): Characteristics, History, Symbolist Painters: Gustave Moreau, James Ensor, Odilon Redon.

Symbolism refers to movements in both literature and the visual arts during the late 19th Century. It appeared in the 1880s among French poets, les poètes maudits, who developed an idealistic type of verse, as a reaction to Naturalism and Realism.

Symbolism initially developed as a French literary movement in the 1880s, gaining popular credence with the publication in 1886 of Jean manifesto in Le Figaro. Reacting against the rationalism and materialism that had come to dominate Western European culture.

Artworks and artists: Symbolism was both an artistic and a literary movement that suggested ideas through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes, and colors.

Symbolism is always confusing because we use the word to refer to the study of symbols or iconography in art works, but it also refers to a specific movement. Usually grouped with the other post-impressionist movements, symbolism emerged at just about the same time as impressionism, so it is not entirely accurate to call it "post" impressionist. Nonetheless, much of the symbolist movement (at least in the visual arts) does take shape as a response to impressionism.

Symbolism is an art movement that started out as a reaction against the purely visual Realism and Impressionism, in order to depict the symbols of ideas. Influenced by Romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, it thrived in France in the late nineteenth century, its influence spreading throughout much of Europe.