Sümbolism
Symbolism
Liisi Pajula
Characteristics
19th century
France, Belgium
reaction against Naturalism and Realism
spirituality, imagnination, dreams
represents a more gothic side of
Romanticism
static, priestly
Artists
Caspar David Friedrich
Fernand Khnopff
John Henry Fuseli
Gustave Moreau
Edvard Munch
Jan Toorop
Fernand Khnopff "The Caress"
Symbolism in art
mythology, dreams to reveal the soul
evocative
no mainstream symbols very private,
obscure, ambigious
more like a philosophy
influenced Art Nouveau and Les Nabis