Symbolism art movement

This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a sermon based on a passage from the Bible. Genesis (32:22-32) relates the story of Jacob, who, after fording the river Jabbok with his family, spent a whole night wrestling with a mysterious angel. In a letter the artist wrote to Van Gogh he said 'For me the landscape and the fight only exist in the…

c. 1876. Watercolour. 105 x 72 cms | 41 ¼ x 28 ¼ ins. Musee d'Orsay, France

Decadence, Ramon Casas i Carbó, 1899

Sydney Long - Fantasy 1916c

“The Cyclops, 1914 #odilonredon #redon”

Early last year I wrote a piece for Daily Art Magazine on Symbolism in Victorian Art One of the paintings under discussion was Evil Mothers by Giovanni Segantini, an artist I have a love/hate relat…