Symbolism

• Intellectual form of
expression

• Use of shapes and colors to

communicate message
• Inspired by literature (legends,
myths, fables, biblical stories and
poetry of the day) and historyism

• subjects include sensual issues,

religious feelings, love, death,
disease and sin and occult
 Paul Gauguin
• Subject: Passion, Jesus Christ
• Art Form: Painting
• Period / Movement: Symbolist
literature
 Fauvism
• A radical use of unnatural colors that
separated color from its usual
representational and realistic role,
giving new, emotional meaning to
the colors (colourist movemen)
• Creating a strong, unified work that
appears flat on the canvas.
 Henry Matisse
• The Open Window (The Open
Window of Collioure)
• Les toits de Collioure (The Roofs
of Collioure)
• The Plum Blossoms (Prunier en
fleurs)
 Andrei Derain
• The Pool of London
 Expressionism
• initially in poetry and painting
• originating in Germany at the
beginning of the 20th century
• uses distortion for emotional
effect in order to evoke moods
or ideas rather than reality
Vincent
Van
Gogh
Edvard
Munch
 Dadaism
• form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for
the social, political and cultural values of the time
• art movement formed during the First World War
in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and
folly of the war
• embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre,
dance and politics
• aesthetic was considered secondary to the ideas
it conveyed
 Hugo Ball
• A writer and founder of dada
• In 1916, he started a satirical night-club in
Zurich, the Cabaret Voltaire, and a magazine
which, wrote Ball
 Marcel
Duchamp
endowing the
Mona Lisa with
masculine
attributes, he
alludes to
Leonardo's
purported
homosexuality
 Surrealism
influenced by the
writings of Sigmund
Freud, the founder of
psychoanalysis.

explored the hidden

depths of the
'unconscious mind‘

Salvador Dali (1904-

1989)
Metamorphosis of
Narcissus, 1937
Surrealism in Literature
Freedom of Love
By Andre Breton
“My wife with the hair of a wood fire
With the thoughts of heat lightning
With the waist of an hourglass
With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger
My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of
stars of the last magnitude
With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white
earth
With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass
My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host.”
(Lines 1-8)