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This painting by Laurence Koe is reminiscent of the Symbolist style of painting in the late nineteenth century. It depicts a couple in flowing dress in an embrace in a cornfield with woodland, blue skies and clouds in the background.<\/p>\n

Symbolism\u00a0was a movement\u00a0of\u00a0French,\u00a0Russian\u00a0and Belgian\u00a0origin in poetry and other arts.\u00a0The name “symbolist” itself was first applied by the French critic\u00a0Jean Mor\u00e9as, who invented the term to distinguish the symbolists from the related\u00a0decadents\u00a0of literature and of art.<\/p>\n

Mor\u00e9as\u00a0published the\u00a0Symbolist Manifesto\u00a0(“Le Symbolisme”) in\u00a01886. He announced that symbolism was hostile to “plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description”, and that its goal instead was to “clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form” whose goal was not in itself, but whose “sole purpose was to express the Ideal”.<\/p>\n

The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. Though, the symbols used by symbolism are not the familiar\u00a0emblems\u00a0of mainstream\u00a0iconography\u00a0but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references.<\/p>\n

Symbolism was also more of a philosophy than an actual style of art or a specific technique to paint. That is maybe one reason, why Symbolism had\u00a0such a great influence on many painters and other art styles, especially on Expressionism and Surrealism, and even on the emerging new art of the time: cinematography.<\/p>\n

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This painting by Laurence Koe is reminiscent of the Symbolist style of painting in the late nineteenth century. It depicts a couple in flowing dress in an embrace in a cornfield with woodland, blue skies and clouds in the background. Symbolism\u00a0was a movement\u00a0of\u00a0French,\u00a0Russian\u00a0and Belgian\u00a0origin in poetry and other arts.\u00a0The name “symbolist” itself was first applied … Continue reading Idyll<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}