Stimulating a taste like the Romanticist convention, but exploited mysticism and sensitiveness thru mythology and dream images, preceding the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung. With a robust philosophical touch, way more than a type of art, and Art Nouveau and Expressionist artists like Edvard Munch. Starting France as a reaction to the movements of Naturalism and Realism, which appeared to capture the specific elements of consensual fact, and presented spirituality and imagination reflecting some artists budding interest in religion and spirituality. In translating the language of dreams into design with symbolical leanings, discovering a visible style that draws on that philosophical approach that captures a feeling of art which has been influential on more than one movement artistically, and has brought back some of the more wonderful images to ever cross a canvas.
The Symbolist Manifesto was broadcast in 1886, leading to an outline of the movement that encompassed ideas like being antagonistic towards plain and matter-of-fact meanings, and to express the perfect in a perceptible form was the only point of this art form. Symbolists that preferred poetic method of conveying their ideas, were famous for their methods of removing technical aspects to reach a bigger fluidity for their work, and became related with looking for use of symbolical pictures over raw outline to recall the state of the poet's soul.
Paul Verlaine was influential in an 1884 publication outlining the basis of Symbolism, thru many essays on the pertinent poets of the day, and came to the conclusion of relating the works of this movement to the feted thinker Arthur Schopenhauer, whose own work dug into art as a way of shelter from the struggle of the planet. These similarities, which presented a reflective and creative refuge using themes like mortality and otherworldliness, made disparaging debates between critic and artist alike.
