Project Planning Document: Your group will need to complete this in order to share details about your project with museum curators when they visit our school during the designing/creating process. One Copy for the group due Wednesday, September 18.
Museum of Contemporary Ary San Diego: FIELD WORK & PARTNERSHIP
- Marnie Webber Exhibition at MCASD: Songs that Never Die and Other Stories
- More Like a Forrest: Painting and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris
Famous Symbolist Paintings
- Sir Edward Burne-Jones: The Beguiling of Merlin (1878) Tate Britain, London.
- Arnold Bocklin: Island of the Dead (1880) Museum Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig.
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream (1883) Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
- Gustav Moreau: The Life of Humanity (1886) Gustave Moreau Museum Paris.
- Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893) National Gallery, Oslo.
- Edvard Munch: Anxiety (1894) Munch Museum, Oslo.
- Fernand Khnopff: The Sphinx (The Caresses) (1896) Brussels Arts Museum.
- Adria Gual: Morning Dew (1897) Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona.
Symbolism is really an intellectual form of expressionism. Not content with using color and shape to communicate their feelings, symbolist artists inject their compositions with messages and esoteric references. It is this narrative content which turns a work of art into a symbolist work of art.
Symbolist Artist Inspiration
- John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
- Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
- George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)
- Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856)
In simple terms, Symbolists thought that art should express more absolute truths which could only be accessed indirectly, using metaphorical imagery and suggestive forms containing symbolic meaning.
- Sir Edward Burne-Jones: The Beguiling of Merlin (1878) Tate Britain, London.
- Arnold Bocklin: Island of the Dead (1880) Museum Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig.
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream (1883) Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
- Gustav Moreau: The Life of Humanity (1886) Gustave Moreau Museum Paris.
- Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893) National Gallery, Oslo.
- Edvard Munch: Anxiety (1894) Munch Museum, Oslo.
- Fernand Khnopff: The Sphinx (The Caresses) (1896) Brussels Arts Museum.
- Adria Gual: Morning Dew (1897) Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona.
Symbolism is really an intellectual form of expressionism. Not content with using color and shape to communicate their feelings, symbolist artists inject their compositions with messages and esoteric references. It is this narrative content which turns a work of art into a symbolist work of art.
Symbolist Artist Inspiration
- John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
- Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
- George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)
- Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856)
In simple terms, Symbolists thought that art should express more absolute truths which could only be accessed indirectly, using metaphorical imagery and suggestive forms containing symbolic meaning.