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Ainsi, dans cet art, les tableaux de la nature, les actions des humains, tous les phénomènes concrets ne sauraient se manifester eux-mêmes ; ce sont là des apparences sensibles destinées à représenter leurs affinités ésotériques avec des Idées primordiales.

In this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not be described for their own sake; here, they are perceptible surfaces created to represent their esoteric affinities with the primordial Ideals.

The Symbolist Manifesto ("Le Symbolisme") Le Figaro on 18 September 1886


PRECURSORS


Caspar David FriedrichChalk Cliffs on Rugen, 1818

Oil on canvas, 90.5 × 71 cm. Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten


Caspar David FriedrichThe Abbey in the Oakwood, 1808-10Oil on canvas, 110.4 × 171 cm.Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.


Caspar David Friedrich Moonrise Over the Sea, 1822 Oil on canvas, 55 × 71 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.


Caspar David FriedrichThe Stages of Life, 1835Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig


John Everett MillaisOphelia, circa 1851Oil on canvas, 76.2 x111.8 cmTate


Dante Gabriel RossettiA Vision of Fiammetta, 1878Oil on canvas, 146 × 90 cmCollection of Lord Lloyd-Webber


LES NABIS


Maurice DenisWave, 1916Oil on canvas, 100 × 124 cm.Ohara Museum of Art, Japan


Paul SérusierThe Talisman, 1888

Oil on wood, 27 x 21.5 cm.Musee d’Orsay, Paris.


Paul SérusierMelancholie, 1890

Oil on canvas, 73 × 60 cm.Private collection, Paris.


KEY ARTISTS


Pierre Puvis de ChavannesThe Dream, 1883

Oil on canvas, 82 × 102 cmWalters Art Museum


Pierre Puvis de ChavannesHope, 1872

Oil on canvas 102.5 × 129.5 cm Walters Art Museum


Arnold BöcklinIsle of the Dead, 1886

Oil on panel, 80 × 150 cmMuseum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany


Franz StuckThe Sin, 1893Oil on canvas, 95 × 60 cmNeue Pinakothek, Germany


Gustav KlimtThe Three Ages of Woman, 1905Oil on canvas, 180 × 180 cmGalleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma


Odilon RedonPortrait of Violette Heymann, 1910

Pastels, 72 x 92 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art


Hugo SimbergThe Wounded Angel, 1903

Oil on canvas, 154 × 127 cmAteneum, Finland


Edvard MunchAnxiety, 1894 Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard. 94 × 74 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo


Edvard MunchEvening. Melancholy I. 1896. Woodcut, 41.1 × 55.7 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo


Edvard MunchThe Scream. 1983

Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard. Nasionalgallerie, Oslo


Victor Borisov-MusatovSpring, 1898-1901


Victor Borisov-MusatovPhantoms. 1903.

Tempera on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Russia.


Pavel KuznetsovBlue Fountain, 1905The Tretyakov Gallery, Russia.


Pavel Kuznetsov In the steppes. Mirage, 1911


Mikhail VrubelSwan princess, 1900

Oil on canvas , 142 × 83 cmThe Tretyakov Gallery, Russia.


Mikhail Vrubel Lilac, 1900Oil on canvas.,160 x 177 cmThe Tretyakov Gallery, Russia.


Mikhail VrubelPearl oyster, 1904

Pastel, goache, charcoal on cardboard . 35x44 cmThe Tretyakov Gallery , Russia


Mikhail VrubelDemon Seated in a Garden, 1890Oil on canvas, 114x211 cmThe Tretyakov Gallery, Russia.


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