Evoking a flavor similar to the romantic tradition, but mysticism used and sensitivity imaging of mythology and the dream, which precedes the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung. With a strong philosophical touch more to a style of art and artists Art Nouveau and expressionist as Edvard Digest. Beginning in France as a reaction to the movement of naturalism and realism, which seemed to capture the specific components of consensus and presented reality spirituality and imagination that reflects some artists budding interest in religion and spirituality.
In literature, poet Charles Baudelaire developed his work and the movement and especially with such luminaries as Verlaine contributing to the collective effort of the literary movement in the 1860s and 1870s. With the works of Edgar Allen Poe from popularity in the 1880s, the movement of symbolism in work represented an outgrowth in the darker and more nature Gothic romanticism and compared alongside rebel and impetuous romantic. Symbolist writers wrote in a very metaphorical and suggestive manner, to imbue people with a sense of symbolic significance and realistic images have become representatives of ideas more esoteric and primordial.
Translating the language of dreams into work with the symbolic leanings, the discovery of a visual style inspired by this philosophical approach that captures a sense of art that has had an influence on more than one art movement and referred some of the fantastic images never cross a canvas. The Symbolist Manifesto was published in 1886, leading to a description of the movement that included such ideas as being hostile to sense plain and diverted, and express the ideal in a perceptible form was the sole purpose of this art form.
Symbolists preferred poetic way to convey their ideas, were known for their suppression of the technical aspects techniques to achieve a greater flexibility for their work and became associated with trying to use symbolic images on gross description to evoke the State of soul of the poet. Paul Verlaine had a great influence in a publication of 1884 defining the essence of symbolism, with many trials on the relevant poets of the day and come to the conclusion of on the works of this movement to the famous philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whose own work reviewed in art as a means of shelter against conflicts in the world.
These similarities, which presented a contemplative and artistic refuge using the mortality and naïve optimism, themes created derogatory arguments between both artist and critic. Leading to many poets Symbolist day to do their own publications and periodicals and literary symbolism then reached its "peak in 1886, with a special periodic duration until 1965." But two aspects of the movement are distinct, they sometimes overlap and becomes a continuation of the mystical tendencies in the romantic tradition, even flirting with the self-consciously dark decadence movement.
There are several different groups of painters and visual artists in the movement of symbolism, and the art movement seems to have more impact in the world than the literary movement, reaching several artists and sculptors such as separate parties, the Russia. Many of the symbols found below are not necessarily universal, but more personally affected by references obscure and private artist, with some dreamlike object that influence the surrealists later. Symbolism had a solid relationship and music for some time, and especially because of the enthusiasm for the work of Richard Wagner, the own music reflects the influence of the philosopher Schopenhauer.
Symbolism even grew to affect some of the literary fiction has contributed by Oscar Wilde and Paul Adam, and has a pronounced ring when he speaks on the movements that have used and artistically who crossed in other internal groups of artistic work. The waters of symbolism have even filtered the centuries in the State of motion pictures today and influence which took place from the beginning with the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, and the method of Russian actor and Director Vsevolov Meyerhold to act which influence early motion pictures.
It is difficult to forget the influence of symbolism and impact throughout the timeline for the current period of the world, as it derives from many aspects taken for granted on a daily basis and several pieces of work for many artists of the writer t.s. Eliot to the painter Pablo Picasso and even the State of horror as well. A significantly different state of the world now has been interpreted and reinterpreted it all of these hundreds of years and created more than physical reflections of the State of things they are.
