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TU 110 Integrated HumanitiesTuesday March 25, 2008
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TU 110 Integrated HumanitiesTuesday March 25, 2008
Introduction
Originated in France (late 19th century)
Loosely defined movement in art… (darker sides of Romanticism)
“Art should show more absolute truths which could only be seen indirectly”
Mysterious, ambiguous interpretations of emotions using symbols
Romanticism Surrealism
Significant influence on expressionism, surrealism
Dreams
Imagination
Spirituality
Introduction
Source of
inspiration
Borrowed images from symbolist
writings
Biblical references & ancient myth
Traditional Approach
Common themes
Sexuality/Nudity Biblical events Angels Women/Motherhood Bright colors/graphics Dark spirits/ Death Gods/Goddess Ancient Myth
Characters
Symbolism: death, evil, mysterious
Well-known artists for this type of symbolisms
Jean Delville Arnold Bocklin
Symbolist painter, writer, occultist,
Belgian symbolist: 1867-1953
“Mysteriosa” Jean Deville (1892)(Portrait of Mrs. Stuart Merrill)
Aura: Enlighten, developed to another stage
Upward gaze
Hot colors: earthly fires of passion & sensuality
Upward triangle: perfect human knowledge,
achieved through magic
Mood: mystery, intrigue, magical, supernatural
Mediumistic character
Symbolism: death, evil, mysterious
Well-known artists for this type of symbolisms
He had 11 children and 5 of them died in infancy
Swiss-German symbolist: 1827-1901
Jean Delville Arnold Bocklin
Self-Portrait with Death playing the fiddle (1872)
Skeleton: death, dark spirit, mortality life?
Fiddle vs. Violin
Darker colors: mysterious, unexplained, secretive
Gaze: entranced, worried, stressful , determined
Art is what keeps him going.. (pleasant-feeling)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Island of the Dead (1883)
Cypress Tree
Title of the picture(tranquil place)
White-drape coffin on the boat
Immobility, withdrawal, disassociation
Contrasting colors
Symbolism and “Mythology”
• Biblical and Greek mythology continues• Symbolists
- mythology &dream >> visual language of soul- symbols >> personal, private, obscure, and ambiguous
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) - symphonic poems - bright, jewel-like color, luxurious effect - woman >> destruction and chaos (mostly)
Jason and Medea
Butterflies
Broken spear and the beast
Clenched hand and Size of medea
Vial of magic, serpent, garland of flowers
• Title : Jason and medea (1865) oil on canvas
Oedipus and the sphinx
• Title : Oedipus and the sphinx (1864) Oil on canvas
• The position of sphinx : more prominent than Oedipus, full of details, latches on Oedipus’ s chest
• Oedipus’s immobile and expressionless : the man is too helpless to fight in the world full with terrible things
• The sphinx’s expression : anxious
•The cloudy bluish-gray sky : the fate of Oedipus
Salome dancing before Herod
• Salome dancing before Herod (1876) oil on canvas
The lotus
Bracelet with the open eye
• The act of dancing
The panther
Sexual Symbolism
• “God” designed sex, not man or society. • Sex is a Big Thing. • What it means is so big that we will never
exhaust it, only discover more facets of its diamond.
• The relationship between symbolism and sexuality was not always degrading to women.
• Sex was a source of liberation with the potential to unite humanity with God.
Félicien Rops
• (July 7, 1833 - August 23, 1898)• Belgian artist• Lover of the fantastic and the supernatural• Symbolic themes such as the devil,
skeletons, the prostitute, and death dominated his work
• Many demonstrated his belief that women dominated men and the devil dominated women....
• Woman is Satan’s accomplice, provokes the most extreme vices and torments in Man
"Pornokrates" (1896)
Pig with the golden tail
Men
Blindfolded
"Pornokrates" or«La Dame au cochon» (1896)
• For some the pig with the golden tail represents the image of luxury and lucre steering the woman, whose only excuse is her blindness
• For others, it is the image of man, bestial and stupid, kept in check by the woman
• Pornokrates imply the advent to the art world of the contemporary woman which Rops glorified
• She is characterised by her arrogance, her composure and her ruthlessness
Franz Stuck• (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928)• German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter,
sculptor, engraver, and architect
• His seductive female nudes, in the role of the femme fatale, are a prime example of popular Symbolist content
Femme Fatale
• “Deadly woman" • Alluring and seductive woman whose
charms ensnare(lure) her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire..
• Leading them into dangerous and deadly situations
• She is an archetypal character of literature and art
The Sin (1893)
The Sin (1893)• Femme Fatale dangers of the destructive
female temptation• The snake has a threatening open mouth, while
the woman looks provocatively at the viewer • The symbolic content implies the danger of
sexual desire as personified by the mysterious seductress
• The title invokes a reminder of the repression of sexual desire caused by religious mandate
Symbolism & Women
1. Femme Fatale versus Angelic woman– seductive woman whose charms spurs irresistible desire,
often leading them into compromising, dangerous and deadly situations
– Naïve, angel-like woman who portrays a sense of purity
2. Female biological life-cycle– Virginity– Motherhood
Angelic Woman
Maurice Denis – Annunciation (1912)
• Wings of angels is a symbol of Sainthood • Sunlight is the opposite meaning of darkness
Femme Fatale
Sphinx or leopard body:Represents a hybrid monster, sin, and cruelty
Scepter: Power and statusFernand Khnopff -The Caresses (1896)
Virgin girl as a symbol
Puvis de Chavannes - Hope
Nakedness: pure, simple, and nothing to disguise
Olive & White robe: Peace
Background:Ruin city walls in the midst of devastation after the Franco-Prussian war
Association of Virginity with:- Truth- Purity- Strength
Motherhood
Eugene Carriere – Tendresse
• Woman & child constitutes an equally prevalent, time honored theme• Individual identities are transformed to become symbols of emotional state of motherhood
Roses: Love that can defeat everything and unfaltering
Femme Fatale
• Tempting feminine figure• Poised in her dance holding a lotus flower• Powerfully mysterious & exotic
Gustave Moreau – Salome (1876)
• The use of attractive female imagery to suggest lust, death, and destruction
• Fertility goddess Diana of Ephesus