Symbolists and Decadents (Art Ebook) pdf torrent

Symbolists and Decadents
Park South Books | 1977 | ISBN: 0917923049 | English | 96 pages | PDF | 14 MB

In France in the late nineteenth century two strongly contrasting art movements could be discerned: on the one hand the Impressionists and their followers, painting sunlit scenes of essentially bourgeois pleasures; on the other, the Symbolists, who loved to depict a highly artificial world filled with fantasy and myth. Symbolist art embraces a wide spectrum of artists who are not normally thought of under that label. Whistler; Munch; the Pre-Raphaehtes Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Watts - all at some stage of their careers produced Symbolist work, some of which is shown here