OLLI-00103 - The Symbolist Movement and Gustav Klimt

Influenced by Poe and Baudelaire, the Symbolist Movement was a late 19th century artistic trend which included poetry, prose, visual arts, and music. Reacting against realism, naturalism, or other attempts to represent reality in its trivial details, Symbolist artists stressed spirituality, dreams and imagination. “Anywhere, out of the world” was their motto, revealing a particular fin-de-siècle malaise. After a brief analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, the theater of Maeterlinck, and the music of Debussy, we will focus on the art of Moreau, Burne-Jones, Böcklin, Previati, Hodler, the Glasgow School, but especially Gustav Klimt.
 

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