1. The Symbolist Movement
Meaning developed in France within the other half from the nineteenth century as reply to the harsh
facts and hardened vision of realism and naturalism. However it was not even close to a high
elevation of idealism, no, it rather searched for as one example of and exalt the overlooked banalities
every day existence. Symbolists also stepped into spirituality, imagination and dreams.
The roots from the movement in literature lie in Charles Baudelaire's L'ensemble des Fleurs du Mal
(1857) and was created by Stephane Mallarme and Paul Verlaine throughout the 1860s and 1870s.
Through them a technique for art developed in which the truth was searched for by using metaphoric
and suggestive means.
The Reality, the complete, the perfect was hard to grasp therefore it was too simple a means to
directly explain, rather more comprehensive approaches needed to be utilized. Plain description was
changed by complex evocation and therefore the movement was typified through free verse. The
energy of suggestion centered all works created and consistent with this, artists were greatly affected
by mental theory and occult doctrines. Spirituality was accomplished by intuition, fantasy, imagination,
dreams, visions, hypnosis and alchemy.
The Symbolists came on Schopenhauer's theory that art's purpose was use a temporary refuge in the
facts around the globe, and therefore their subsequent immersion in mysticism and otherworldliness
as well as their sense that belongs to them mortality. Meaning were built with a significant affect on
early Modernists for example T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Apollinaire and William Butler
Yeats. Following the turn from the century Meaning grew to become prevalent in Russian poetry.
Symbolist artists were the definitive precursors of expressionism and surrealism in painting.
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