1) Artist 2) Creative person 3) French word used in English 1) Symboliser 2) Symbolizer 
late 19th-century French writers, including Mallarmé and Valéry, whose verse dealt with transcendental phenomena or with images and actions whose meaning was associative rather than referential.
• (n.) One who employs symbols.
Sym'bol·ist noun One who employs symbols. 
[n] - someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols 2. [n] - a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
noun a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
a person who uses symbols or symbolism. · a person versed in the study or interpretation of symbols. · · a writer who seeks to express or evoke emotions, ideas, etc., by stressing the symbolic value of language, to which is ascribed a capacity for communicating otherwise inexpressible visions of reality. · (usually cap.) a m...