Symbolism
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- Date:
- 1886 - c. 1930
- Significant Works:
- Ubu roi A Season in Hell Axel’s Castle Against the Grain
- Related Artists:
- Jean Moréas Gustave Kahn Vincent van Gogh Arthur Rimbaud Paul Gauguin
Symbolism, a loosely organized literary and artistic movement that originated with a group of French poets in the late 19th century, spread to painting and the theatre, and influenced the European and American literatures of the 20th century to varying degrees. Symbolist artists sought to express individual emotional experience through the subtle and suggestive use of highly symbolized language. The principal Symbolist poets include the Frenchmen Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Henri de Régnier, René Ghil, and Gustave Kahn; the Belgians Émile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach; the Greek-born Jean Moréas; and Francis Viélé-Griffin and Stuart Merrill, who ...(100 of 1460 words)