Symbolist V2

136 Pages of Paintings. The Symbolist movement, flowering in Europe from the 1880s through the early twentieth century, sought to transform art into a vessel for the unseen. While Realist and Impressionist painters focused on the physical surface of modern life, Symbolists strove to reveal the invisible realms of dream, myth, and spirituality. They were united not by a single style but by a shared philosophy: art should suggest rather than describe, evoke rather than document. The painters, illustrators, and visionaries of Symbolism constructed a movement that was as much about the inner world as it was about the outer one. Artists List: Da Loria Norman, Moritz von Schwind, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Adam Chmielowski, Albert Welti, Alexander Rothaug, Alice Pike Barney, Alphonse Osbert, Eugène Grasset, Armand Point, Arnold Böcklin, Arnold Frédéric Rechberg, Arthur Hacker, Arthur Rackham, August Malmström, Carlos Schwabe, Elihu Vedder, Ernst Josephson, Ferdinand Leeke, Ferdinand Schmutzer,