Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia 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
Symbolism | Literary, Visual Cultural Impact | Britannica Symbolism, a loosely organized literary and artistic movement that originated with a group of French poets in the late 19th century, spread to painting and the theatre, and influenced the European and American literatures of the 20th century to varying degrees
Symbolism Movement Overview | TheArtStory What unites the various artists and styles associated with Symbolism is the emphasis on emotions, feelings, ideas, and subjectivity rather than realism Their works are personal and express their own ideologies, particularly the belief in the artist's power to reveal truth
Symbolism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symbolist painters believed that art should reflect an emotion or idea rather than represent the natural world in the objective, quasi-scientific manner embodied by Realism and Impressionism
Symbolism Art - History of the Symbolist Movement Symbolist painters strived for complexity and implication of the intimate, half-stated, and cryptic allusions demanded by their intellectual and musically inclined equivalents, rather than one-to-one, immediate symbolism present in previous forms of commercial iconography
Symbolist painting - Wikipedia 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