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Symbolism

Symbolism. Part of the Avant-Garde. Avant-Garde: French, “advance guard” (in a platoon). Late 19th and 20th c. artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work. Also used as an adjective Post Impressionists were the first artists labeled avant-garde.

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Symbolism

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  1. Symbolism

  2. Part of the Avant-Garde Avant-Garde: French, “advance guard” (in a platoon). Late 19th and 20th c. artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work. Also used as an adjective Post Impressionists were the first artists labeled avant-garde. Term has expanded to serve as a synonym for any particularly new or cutting-edge cultural manifestation

  3. Changes near the end of the 19th c. Impressionists/post impressionists used their emotions to interpret nature By end of 19th c. artists no longer imitated nature but created free interpretations of it. rejecting the optical world in favor of a fantasy world Forms conjured from imagination Colors, line, and shape divorced from the conformity of the optical image and were used as symbols of personal emotion in response to the world.

  4. Symbolism Artistic and literary movement in the late 19th c. Based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed the facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact.

  5. Symbolism Short Stories In groups , you will be assigned a painting for which you will write a short story. Remember that symbolism uses images that are often dreamlike, mysterious, or fantastic. Your story must be at least one page double spaced and include a beginning, middle, and end. The painting should represent the end. Use MLA formatting—heading, 12pt Times New Roman, one inch margins, no after spacing. gregoryk@issaquah.wednet.edu

  6. The Artists Redon: Adapted impressionist style palette Projected figments of the imagination Rousseau: A ‘primitive’ like Gauguin but without leaving Paris Used exotic images w/mysterious tropical landscapes Munch: also considered an early expressionist Themes: Jealousy, loneliness, fear, desire, despair Used color, line, and figural distortion to expressive ends.

  7. Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy 1897oil on canvas4 ft. 3 in. 6 ft. 7 in.

  8. Edvard Munch The Scream 1893oil, pastel and casein on cardboard2 ft. 11 3/4 in. x 2 ft. 5 in.

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