Imagery and Symbolism

The features of symbolism are present in various arts of many centuries and nations. There is symbolism movement of 1885 – 1910, which formed as a reaction to realism and impressionism. The followers of the movement used colours and forms to express moods and psychological states. The imagination, spirituality were the features supported by the movement, and such tendency could be traced in art, poetry, music, philosophy, theatre. Symbolism had great influence on literature and it has generated a generation of writers.

The movement carried away a lot of people and being widely spread among various spheres of life, symbolism meaning was different in literature and in art. Symbolism meaning in art was to represent the other dark side of romanticism. The symbols of symbolism carry particular conventional meanings. Symbols of symbolism possess abstract rather than any other properties, what allows to interprete broader.

Images with symbolical meaning were used to achieve absolute truth. Among the leading painters of that period were Gustave Moreau, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Odilon Redon, Arnold Böcklin, Edward Burne-Jones, Jan Theodoor Toorop, Mikhail Vrubel, Nicholas Roerich, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Martiros Saryan, Mikhail Nesterov, Leon Bakst, Frida Kahlo, Elihu Vedder, Remedios Varo, Morris Graves, David Chetlahe Paladin, Elle Nicola. The movement was especially popular in literature, but in art symbolism also took it's place. Dream imagery was used by symbolism painters as a language by means of which the meaning of the art was brought home to the viewers. The movement, it's symbols personal and obscure, turned symbolism into a philosophy rather than a style in painting. The desire to explore the ambiguous, mythological imagery has united great number of creative people, painters, writers, sculptors, etc. Across centuries one can see the influence of the movement. Today there are also artists that create their artworks in this very style.

The symbolism meanings also influenced such movements as expressionism and surrealism and the results of such influence were even seen on the paintings of leading artists of that period. In some countries, such as Belgium, the movement had especially strong influence and the work of some artists predetermined the development of art nouveau even. Among all the areas, painting sphere can boast the most numerous quantity of artists and countries where the movement was spread: Russia, Mexico, United States, France, Switzerland, Britain, the Netherlands.

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