{"id":2432,"date":"2012-01-19T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2012-01-19T22:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T22:33:44","slug":"symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/symbolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re going have one more paintings\/art movement day.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Carlos Schwabe, The Death of the Grave Digger\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/30\/The_Death_of_the_Grave_Digger.jpg\/431px-The_Death_of_the_Grave_Digger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"599\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Schwabe, The Death of the Grave Digger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From 1885 to 1910, while the Aesthetics and the Decadents were bursting with life, Symbolism was also in full swing. In fact, there isn&#8217;t much of a line between these genres. You can find many names under all three categories, although Symbolism was centered more in France, Belgium and Russia and does has some particular characteristics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2435\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/or.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2435 \" title=\"Odilon Redon, Muse On Pegasus\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/or.jpg?resize=498%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odilon Redon, Muse On Pegasus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They were about the mystical and the visionary.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Gustave Moreau, Oedipus the Wayfarer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uploads5.wikipaintings.org\/images\/gustave-moreau\/oedipus-the-wayfarer.jpg?resize=482%2C645\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"645\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustave Moreau, Oedipus the Wayfarer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 756px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Alphonse Osbert, The Songs of the Night\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/alphonse2bosbert2bles2bchants2bde2bla2bnuit.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C388\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alphonse Osbert, The Songs of the Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One cannot of course have a movement without a manifesto. &#8220;In this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not be described for their own sake; here, they are perceptible surfaces created to represent their esoteric affinities with the primordial Ideals<sup>&#8220;<\/sup><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Boecklin, Isle of the Dead\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.luc.edu\/history\/fac_resources\/dennis\/Visual_Arts\/106%20Images\/08-Symbol_Boecklin_Isle-of-the-Dead.jpg?resize=567%2C401\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boecklin, Isle of the Dead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fernand Khnopff, Flaubert\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reproarte.com\/files\/images\/K\/khnopff_fernand\/0311-0070_d-apres_flaubert.jpg?resize=450%2C477&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"477\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernand Khnopff, Flaubert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Symbolists included poets too, such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gustave Kahn,\u00a0Baudelaire (who was involved with all of these movements) and Rimbaud.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Gustav Klimt, Death and Life\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artchive.com\/artchive\/k\/klimt\/klimt_death_life.jpg?resize=622%2C576\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustav Klimt, Death and Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The importance of these three entwining movement, Aesthetic, Decadent and Symbolism, aside from their own beauty in and of themselves, is that they formed the launch pad of what would become 20th century abstraction. It is the Aesthetic trinity that crossed the barrier which led to modern art. If you take Impressionism and combine it with the Aesthetic trinity (and get drunk) you can see how Kandinsky, Klee, Picasso, Matisse, Franz Marc and modern art in general was the next logical step forward.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Vasily Polenov, Christ and the Sinner\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uploads2.wikipaintings.org\/images\/vasily-polenov\/christ-and-the-sinner-1876.jpg?resize=640%2C392\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"392\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vasily Polenov, Christ and the Sinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re going have one more paintings\/art movement day. From 1885 to 1910, while the Aesthetics and the Decadents were bursting with life, Symbolism was also in full swing. In fact, there isn&#8217;t much of a line between these genres. 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