1) Art movement 2) Art word with Frankish origin 3) Art term 4) Artistic word 5) Art term with French origin 6) Art term with Frankish origin 7) Art word with French origin 8) Art word 9) Artistic term 10) Common literary technique 11) Modern art 12) Symbol 13) Symbolic meaning or character 14) Use of metaphors
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1) Indication 2) Symbology 3) Typology
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[arts] Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into F...
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Extravagant dreamlike paintings, painted for the imagination
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• (n.) A combining together of parts or ingredients. • (n.) The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. • (n.) The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby. • (n...
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(from the article `human behaviour`) Symbolic ability, which appears at about one year of age, can be observed when a child imaginatively treats an object as something other than it ... As with all religious symbolism, there is no attempt to justify mythic narratives or even to render them plausible. Every myth presents itself as an ......
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In the arts, the use of symbols to concentrate or intensify meaning, making the work more subjective than objective. In the visual arts, symbols have been used in works throughout the ages to...
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Late 19th-century movement in French poetry, which inspired a similar trend in French painting. The Symbolist poets used words for their symbolic rather than concrete meaning. Leading exponents...
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1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc, by emblematic colours, signs, and forms. ... 2. A system of symbols or representations. ... 3. <chemistry> The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby. A combining toge...
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(sim´bәl-iz-әm) the act or process of representing something by a symbol. in psychoanalytic theory, a mechanism of unconscious thinking characterized by substitution of a symbol for a repressed or threatening impulse or object, which is often of a sexual nature, so as to avoid censorship by the...
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A painting movement that flourished in France in the 1880s and 1890s in which subject matter was suggested rather than directly presented. It featured decorative, stylized, and evocative images.
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Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a
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Sym'bol·ism noun 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system of symbols or representations. 3. (Chemistry)
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Symbolism rejected objectivity in favor of the subjective, and turned away from the direct representation of reality in favor of synthesis of many different aspects of it, aiming to suggest ideas by means of ambiguous yet powerful symbols.. It combined religious mysticism with an interest in the perverse and the erotic, an interest in what seemed &...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: sim′bŏl-izm Definitions: 1. In psychoanalysis, the process involved in the disguised representation in consciousness of unconscious or repressed contents or events. 2. A mental state in which a person regards everything that happens as symbolic of that person's own thoughts. 3. The description of the emotional l...
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The deliberate use of symbols in a piece of writing, meant to be taken literally or figuratively.
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Visual imagery to represent a message or concept.
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symbolism 1. The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. 2. The disguised representation in conscious thought of unconscious or repressed contents or events. 3. A set or system of symbols. 4. A symbolic meaning or character. 5. The principles and practice of symbolists in art or lit...
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A device where an object, event, or action is used to suggest a meaning beyond its literal .
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Term Symbolism coined 1886 by French critic Jean Moréas to describe poetry of Mallarmé and Verlaine. Soon applied to art where describes continuation, in face of Impressionism, Realism, Naturalism, of traditional mythological, religious and literary subject matter, but fuelled by new psychological content, particularly erotic and mystical. Comple...
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symbolization noun the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
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An artistic trend flourishing at the end of the XIXth century in reaction to faith in the beauty of nature, and endeavoring to represent spiritual values by means of abstract signs. -- L.V.
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(art) In the arts, the use of symbols to concentrate or intensify meaning, making the work more subjective than objective. In the visual arts, symbols have been used in works throughout the ages to transmit a message or idea, for example, the religious symbolism of ancient Egyptian art, Gothic...
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(poetry) Late 19th-century movement in French poetry, which inspired a similar trend in French painting. The Symbolist poets used words for their symbolic rather than concrete meaning. Leading exponents were Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Arthur Rimbaud
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the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. · a set or system of symbols. · symbolic meaning or character. · the principles and practice of symbolists in art or literature. · (cap.) a movement of the late 19th century in French art and literature. Cf.(defs. 3b, ...
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