Symbolism art movement

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

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…

Sydney Long - Fantasy 1916c

The "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "Starry Nights", and "Whistler's Mother" are paintings that have inspired and awed people for generations.

Ervand Kochar. One of most Prominent Figure of Armenian Cubism & Modernism. Founder of “Painting in Space” Art Movement.

Klimts Woman Goes To Bed At 9:30

Redon's drawings reveal a fascination with darkness, insomnia, and dreams.

Gustave Moreau was one of the most vital French artists of the 19th century, a leading light of the Symbolist movement channelling Renaissance art.

Oil on hardboard panel You can bid on this painting here.

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…