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Symbolism's Main Ideas

Task 2

Symbolism VS naturalism & realism

No! to gritty honest truth!

Mysterious figures - History and Literature

1. Write a small introduction to the Symbolist movement. Consider things like: When it happened - what was going on in Europe at that time? Which art movements it followed, what their style was, why they used symbols etc

Spirituality - Imagination - Dreams

Symbols have been important to artists from the very earliest times. They often represent an idea or quality, for example the colour white usually stands for ? and the lion makes us think of ?

Because works of art don't usually include words, symbols are used in order to tell the viewer a message or even a story. When we look at a painting, we probably miss most of its meaning.

Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths (?) that could only be described indirectly (?) Thus, they painted in a very metaphorical (?) and suggestive (?) manner, giving particular images or objects a symbolic meaning.

2. Print off Symbolist paintings or cut them out of task sheet 1, stick into your book and annotate with information that you have been given..... or worked out on your own!

3. Relate it to your FMP theme: write a list of symbols you could use to connect meaning to your theme (ask me for advice here, or someone in the class, or the internet)

4. Plan, sketch, and create a picture in your sketch book that contains these symbols, and that you can relate to your subject / theme.

5. Show the links, annotate, describe, use expressive language, show off your outstanding knowledge!

We're going to look at some key

Symbolist paintings

Consider

What do colours represent?

Arnold Bocklin - Island of the dead (1886)

Odilon Redon

The fall of Icarus

1864

What do objects in nature represent?

What are they trying to make you feel?

Gustave Klimt - Death & Life - (1910)

Task 1

Working on your own.

Answer the first 3 questions on the sheet. Take your time. Ask questions if you need clarification.

15 -20 MINS

Then class discussion!

Symbolism

What is Symbolism?

Let's set the scene

1880-1910

Spontaneous

Awareness of light

Outside! Nature!

Shifting light

Loose style

Colourful

Impressionism

Recap Time!

Pierre Renoir - La Reverie - 1877

Claude Monet - Haystack at Sunset - 1871

Degas - Two dancers on stage - 1871

Industrial Revolution

Adding an extra 'layer'

Personal, emotional response

Still colourful but more imaginative subject matter

Post Impression

Industrial Revolution

Recap Time!

'Hmmmmm'

Paul Gaugin - Nevermore - 1897

Van Gogh - The Siesta

Paul Cezanne - Pyramid of Skulls - 1877

Queen Vic

Recap Time!

The Suffragette Movement

Cars

Symbolism

Literature

Opium & The East

John Millais - The Blind Begger Girl - 1856

Carlos Schwabe - Death and the grave digger

Beata Beatrix - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1877

I'm no sexist! This is Louis, Ben, Isaac, Harry & Archie

This is me!

This is you!

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