Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
Gauguin, The Green Christ, 1889
Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892
Gauguin, La Orana Maria
Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge; La Goulue, 1891
Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril
Lautrec, Aristide Bruant, 1892
Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892
Symbolism
• Nature as they imagined it• Color, line , shape =symbols of emotion• Fantasy world• Goal not to see things but to see through
things to a far deeper meaning• Convert symbols of this world into symbols
of a reality a world beyond ( the inner life)• Contemporary to Freud’s psychoanalysis
of the 19th century
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) Myself, 1890
Henri Rousseau, The Football Players, 1908
Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy
Rousseau, The Snake Charmer, 1907
Rousseau, The Equatorial Jungle
Redon, The Cyclops
Orpheus, Redon
Jupiter and Semele, Moreau, 1875
Orpheus, Moreau
Adams Memorial, Rock Creek, DC, St Gaudens, 1891
Canto 33, Dante
• But when to our somber cell was thrownA slender ray, and each face was litI saw in each the aspect of my own,For very grief both of my hands I bit,And suddenly from the floor arising they,Thinking my hunger was the cause of it,Exclaimed: Father eat thou of us, and stayOur suffering: thou didst our being dressIn this sad flesh; now strip it all away.