Symbolism
"The man who painted her dreams" Marcel Proust.
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Symbolism developed in Europe towards the end of the nineteenth century and the early years of the next.
More than a group or school, is a movement, an atmosphere that embraces artists and writers of different backgrounds, united by their disdain for the positivism and technological progress and the desire to restore the primacy of the spiritual sphere. What
Symbolism is difficult aesthetic that has its roots in Neoplatonism, in the occult and mystical doctrines. Across Europe we are witnessing the spread of this state of mind, which causes a kind of romantic regurgitation, a phenomenon evident in art and literature and even philosophy, music and theater arts minor. The link between literary and pictorial symbolism and philosophical schools is in fact inseparable. A text which, as Will and Representation Schopenhauer, which makes a distinction between being and appearance, and welcomed in France with great enthusiasm by their environments Simbolismo.Gli near the same artists and theorists of symbolic movement identify their strikers in Some artists already active at mid- of the century. In France the names most often mentioned first
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Gustave Moreau, the nineteenth century, a pupil of Picot the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Although his early paintings achieved great success at the Salon, the artist felt soon to deepen the academic language mixing it with romantic charm, to get a dramatic result and toccante.Tra 1857, and 1959, the artist stays in Italy He studied in Rome, Florence and Venice. The combined effects of Italian Studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, are highlighted in the canvas paintings in the early sixties.
Oedipus and the Sphinx 1864-New York-take underground Museum of Art Ad e Orfeo. Saranno queste due tele ad affascinare i surrealisti, eleggendolo a modello.
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DENTRO AL CAPOLAVORO
Gustave Moreau, è stato un'artista fuori dagli schemi, vicino agli ambienti accademici ma al contempo autonomo e originale , è sempre attentissimo al dettaglio. Moreau in questa tela cita liberamente la tradizione: lo sfondo, per esempio, tradisce la lezione di Leonardo da Vinci. La scelta dell'episodio, lo stile l'atmosfera incantata, l'ambiente e la gamma cromatica testimoniano the complexity of the work.
Orpheus, complex character, hero and victim, very close to mythical figures such as Oedipus or Promoteo revenue in the literature because of their deep symbolic allegorical value.
Orpheus singer and poet, was killed by the Bacchae for refusing their love. Orpheus is a character very dear to art and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreau's interpretation is very original and goes beyond the pictorial tradition of the time. If other artists focus on the dramatic moment of the killing of the young, Moreau prefers to portray a scene less than the usual finding da parte di una fanciulla tracia della testa e della cetra del poeta, gettate in un fiume dalle Baccanti.
Raffinatissimo il dettaglio dei pastori che suonano sulla roccia, in secondo piano, presenze che arricchiscono la scena di magia e si ha come la sensazione di un limbo senza tempo.
Il particolare della cetra è splendido! divenuto tutt'uno con la testa del poeta, in un'unione altamente simbolica con la propria arte, che ne renderà eterno il ricordo.
Orfeo, personaggio complesso, eroe e vittima, assai vicino alle figure mitiche, come Promoteo o Edipo, entrate nella letteratura simbolica in virtù del loro profondo allegorical value.
Orpheus singer and poet, was killed by the Bacchae, for refusing their love. Orpheus is a character very dear to art and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreau's interpretation is very original and goes beyond the pictorial tradition of the time. If other artists focus on the dramatic moment of the killing of the young, Moreau prefers to portray a scene less than usual by the discovery of a Thracian girl's head and lyre of the poet, thrown into a river from the Bacchae.
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recently rediscovered
Pierre Puvis de Shavannes personality is another key to the development of art, not just the scope of symbolist. Born in 1824, discovers his artistic vocation in a trip to Italy, back in France, he enrolled in the courses of the first painting Scheffer, following those of Delacroix, then for a few months he attended the workshop also master Couture Edouard Manet.Artista attentive to technical aspects, to improve the final outcome of the work and make it look similar to a fresco, the artist stretched canvas on a layer of plaster and glue, and then to color it with little oil. These are characteristics that the monuments projects that make decorative and enhances one of the painters Puvis required for this kind of intervention. His are some paintings that adorn the Pantheon and the Hotel de Ville in Paris. At this important production alongside works by Puvis tripod, less spectacular but equally interesting. One of his most famous paintings is The poor fisherman.
Pierre Puvis. Child in the seaside, 1881, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
The artist depicts a glimpse of daily life, a symbol of a much wider and universal theme, a sort of meditation on the concept of poverty. Where, the stark reality of the moment is tinged with nuances of philosophy. Similarly, it is significant for understanding the work of this extraordinary painter.
Girls by the sea by Pierre Puvis, 1879 Paris, Musée d'Orsay
riguardevole canvas size. 205 to 154 cm. Simple in composition, you can breathe all the modernity of his style.
a serene but suspended, almost crystallized, permeates the scene and wrapped the bodies of statues of three women pulling them completely from reality and surrounded by an aura of mystery, the two-dimensionality of the composition, the lovely poetry of all bear witness to the news Language Puvis, definitely an artist who escapes any definition.
The lesson will be invaluable to Puvis avant-garde art of the century.
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Odilon Redon born in 1840, he comes to painting for thirty years, although in the past shown great artistic talent. In the first phase of his artistic career performing mostly charcoal drawings.
connoisseur of art, even before the artist, Redon
approaches the color with the same spirit which is the graphic sign, creating pictures mysterious, suspended in a sort of eternity dream, moving and symbolic. Eyes closed
offers a remarkable witness of
oil and pastels, executed in this new phase. Odilon Redon, is among the most direct precursor of Symbolism.
eyes closed, 1890, Paris Musée d'Orsay
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offers its contribution to the birth of Symbolism in painting also
Eugene Carriere, artist in his time enjoys considerable fame and appreciated. Its production covers only one subject, motherhood, family patterns inspired by, his wife and five children. His style is characterized by a very personal Paletted, almost monochrome brown tones, from a quick tap and nuanced.
His research focuses on very personal spiritual beliefs, aims to transform individual experience into universal symbols.
Student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1870, it was after the Franco Prussian Academy student of Cabanel, 1823-1889, whose most famous painting, The Birth of Venus, 1863 Musée d ' Orsay in Paris, but managed to escape quickly from the influences that gave him a style that mingled with the rich colors of Rubens and Velasquez, to go to this and to penetrate a sweet poem that marked all his work, particularly the mid-eighties.
The family of Eugene Carriere
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Thought.
born tremulous, hesitant
struts.
He pauses a moment, then moves
secure. It soars
mild and ineffable, unattainable and elusive
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where there are no boundaries.
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undoubtedly has
Gustave Moreau, French art scene in the second half of the nineteenth century, a location completely new and very personal. With its accession to Symbolism, after the early classical, definitely denies the sensitivity and nineteenth-century culture, yet full of realism, managing to decline the themes of the Symbolist style in a very original way.
His painting is refined, rich in symbolism and explores with sensitivity that evocative and intimate areas of human consciousness that hitherto had always been excluded from any artistic investigation.
masterpiece "Young Thrace on the head of Orpheus" is unique. Leonardo undoubtedly influenced by the suggestions ... I am reminded of the landscape of "The Virgin delle Rocce", conservato al Louvre e che ho visto dal vivo. Ma poi si stacca da tutto ciò che è precedente per interpretare il tema di Orfeo in modo unico e originale, come da te descritto nel post.
Un articolo superbo, Rosariella. Ti ringrazio di aver voluto inserire il mio breve componimento poetico adolescenziale in un contesto così straordinario.
Grazie per la vostra attenzione.
Maria Rosaria Di Lella.
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