| Evoking a taste similar to the Romanticist tradition, | | | | from the strife of the world. |
| but utilized mysticism and sensitivity through | | | | These similarities, which presented a contemplative |
| mythology and dream imagery, preceding the | | | | and artistic refuge using themes such as mortality |
| psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung. With a | | | | and otherworldliness, created disparaging arguments |
| strong philosophical touch, more so than a style of | | | | between critic and artist alike. Leading to many |
| art, and Art Nouveau and Expressionist artists such | | | | Symbolist poets of the day to make their own |
| as Edvard Munch. Beginning in France as a reaction to | | | | publications and periodicals, and the literary Symbolism |
| the movements of Naturalism and Realism, which | | | | then reached its’ peak in the year 1886, with |
| seemed to capture the particular components of | | | | one particular periodical lasting until 1965. Though the |
| consensual reality, and presented spirituality and | | | | two aspects of the movement were distinct, they |
| imagination reflecting some artists budding interest in | | | | would occasionally overlap each other, and became a |
| religion and spirituality. | | | | continuation for mystical tendencies in a Romantic |
| In literature, poet Charles Baudelaire was developing | | | | tradition, even flirting with the self-consciously dark |
| his work and the movement, and especially with such | | | | Decadence movement. |
| luminaries as Verlaine contributing to the collective | | | | There were several dissimilar groups of painters and |
| effort of the literary movement during the 1860s and | | | | visual artists within the Symbolism movement, and |
| through to the 1870s. With the works of Edgar Allen | | | | the artistic movement seemed to have a greater |
| Poe coming to popularity in the 1880s, the Symbolism | | | | impact worldwide than the literary movement, |
| movement in artwork represented an outgrowth into | | | | reaching multiple artists and sculptors from such |
| the darker and more gothic nature of Romanticism, | | | | distinct parts as Russia. Many of the symbols found |
| and contrasted with Romanticism’s rebellious and | | | | herein are not necessarily universal, but more |
| impetuous sides. Symbolist writers wrote in very | | | | personally affected with the artist’s obscure and |
| metaphoric and suggestive manner, to imbue the | | | | private references, with some dreamlike subject |
| subjects with a sense of symbolic meaning, and | | | | matter influencing later Surrealists. Symbolism has had |
| made realistic images into representatives for more | | | | a strong link to music for a while, and mostly due to |
| esoteric and primordial ideas. | | | | the enthusiasm for the work of Richard Wagner, |
| In translating the language of dreams into artwork | | | | whose own music reflected his influence from the |
| with symbolic leanings, discovering a visual style that | | | | philosopher Schopenhauer. |
| draws upon that philosophical approach that captures | | | | Symbolism even grew to affect some of the literary |
| a sense of art that has been influential on more than | | | | fiction contributed by Oscar Wilde and Paul Adam, |
| one movement artistically, and has evoked some of | | | | and has a pronounced ring when speaking about |
| the more fantastic imagery to ever cross a canvas. | | | | movements that have literary and artistically that |
| The Symbolist Manifesto was published in 1886, | | | | have crossed over into other inner groupings of |
| leading to a description of the movement that | | | | artistic work. The waters of Symbolism have even |
| included ideas such as being hostile towards plain and | | | | filtered down the centuries into the state of motion |
| matter-of-fact meanings, and to express the ideal in | | | | pictures today, and early on held influence with |
| a perceptible form was the sole purpose of this art | | | | Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, as well as Russian |
| form. | | | | actor and director Vsevolov Meyerhold’s method |
| Symbolists that preferred poetic means of conveying | | | | of acting that influenced early motion pictures. |
| their ideas, were known for their techniques of | | | | It is difficult to overlook Symbolism’s influence |
| removing technical aspects to achieve a greater | | | | and repercussions throughout the timeline to the |
| fluidity for their work, and became related with | | | | current period of the world, as it drifts through many |
| seeking use of symbolic images over raw description | | | | aspects taken for granted on a daily basis, and many |
| to evoke the state of the poet’s soul. Paul | | | | pieces of work for many artists from writer T. S. |
| Verlaine was influential in an 1884 publication defining | | | | Eliot to painter Pablo Picasso and even the state of |
| the essence of Symbolism, through many essays on | | | | horror films as well. A decidedly different state of the |
| the relevant poets of the day, and came to the | | | | world now has interpreted and reinterpreted all this |
| conclusion of relating the works of this movement to | | | | throughout these hundreds of years, and created |
| the famed philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whose | | | | more and more material reflections of the state of |
| own work delved into art as a means of refuge | | | | things as they happen to be. |