sym·bol·ism
/ˈsimbəˌlizəm/
noun
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
"he has always believed in the importance of symbolism in garden art"
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Symbolism
Art movement
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. Wikipedia
Influences: Romanticism, Parnassianism, Decadent movement
Major figures: Charles Baudelaire; Stéphane Mallarmé; Paul Verlaine
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8 days ago · The meaning of SYMBOLISM is the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the ...
Arts edit · Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism · Symbol, something that represents, stands for or suggests an idea, belief, action, or ...
Symbolism definition: the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.