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/sˈɪmbəlˌɪst/
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NOUN
- a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
- someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols
How To Use symbolist In A Sentence
- Long an object of fervent Gnostic and Hermetic speculations, it was now extolled as the ideal type of the human being, and celebrated accordingly in literature and art, especially among the Symbolists and the Decadents.
- These images are symbolistic argots about realistic prospect of Chinese society.
- Unsinkabillity became the leading feature of the Titanic's short life only after it hit the bottom, and the fictionalists and symbolists took over.
- The enfant terrible of the symbolist movement, he wrote some of the 19th century's most visionary and influential poetry and prose before abandoning writing at the age of 19.
- Firstly, it puts into order the key concepts of symbolist poetics, correspondence, implication and pure poetry.
- Ibsen would be a classicist, a romantic, a Scribean, a realist, a symbolist, not to mention a Hegelian and a feminist, before he would be an apocalyptic.
- Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration. Top 50 operas
- Crane has been called a naturalist, an impressionist, an expressionist, and a symbolist, but none of these disparate labels satisfactorily denotes the range and complexity of his art.
- Central Business District (CBD) is the symbolist area of many international metropolitan cities as well as a window and symbol of such international city.
- Cassatt's color prints, with their spatial compression, play of abstract patterns, bold blocks of color, and arabesque lines, fulfilled the conditions of this new symbolist art.