Symbolism emerged in modern art just before the turn of the century, as artists began to push much further into ways they could communicate their ideas. Emerging in novels and poetry as well as visual art, symbolism grew mostly from French, Russian, and Belgian artists reacting against naturalism and realism. Other art forms had already […]
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In our continuing series of blogs on some of the greatest artists from the modern art movement, we take a brief look over the careers of five more of the greats. Abstract expressionists Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, symbolist artist Gustav Klimt, surrealist RenĂ© Magritte, and the great outsider who often goes ignored in […]
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