SYMBOLISM• Rejected optical world in favor of

a fantasy world

• Expression of the individual spirit

• Spoke like “prophets” in signs and symbols

• Rejection of Realism, found it “trivial”

Sigmund Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Sacred Grove

1884oil on canvas2 ft. 11 1/2 in. x 6 ft. 10 in.

Odilon Redon

The Cyclops

1898oil on canvas2 ft. 1 in. x 1 ft. 8 in.

“All my originality consists…in making unreal creatures live humanly by putting, as much as possible, the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible”

Henri Rousseau

The Sleeping Gypsy

1897oil on canvas4 ft. 3 in. 6 ft. 7 in.

Aubrey Beardsley

The Peacock Skirt for Oscar Wilde’s Salome

1894pen-and-ink illustration

Edvard Munch

The Scream

1893oil, pastel and casein on cardboard2 ft. 11 3/4 in. x 2 ft. 5 in.

“I stopped and leaned against the balustrade, almost dead with fatigue. Above the blue-black fjord hung the clouds, red as blood and tongues of fire. My friends has left me, and alone, trembling with anguish, I became aware of the vast, infinite cry of nature”

Gustav Klimt

The Kiss1907-1908oil on canvas5 ft. 10 3/4 in. x 5 ft. 10 3/4 in.

Gustav Klimt

Death and Life

1908-11oil on canvas70 1/8 x 78 in.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Adams Memorial

1891bronze5 ft. 10 in. high

Auguste Rodin

Walking Man

1905bronze6 ft. 11 3/4 in. high

Auguste Rodin

Burghers of Calais

1884-1889bronze6 ft. 10 1/2 in. high

Architecture & Decorative Arts

Arts and Crafts• Shaped by ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris• distrust of machines and capitalism Socialism• Produced function objects with high aesthetic value for

a wide public• Floral or geometric designs, drawn from nature

William Morris

Green Dining Room

1867

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Ingram Street Tea Room

Glasgow, Scotland

1900-1902

Art Nouveau (1890-1914)

Developed in Europe – Brussels, Barcelona, Paris and Vienna

• Combines artistic media into one unified experience• Art Nouveau buildings were designed, furnished and decorated

by the same artist or team

Characteristics: • vegetal or floral design• complexity of design• undulating surfaces• NO straight lines

Victor Horta

staircase in the Van Eetvelde House

Brussels, Belgium

1896

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Lotus Table Lamp

ca. 1905leaded favrile glass, mosaic and bronze2 ft. 10 1/2 in. high

Antonio Gaudi

Casa Milá

Barcelona, Spain

1907

ARCHITECTURE

- Skeletal architecture with a “curtain wall”

- Emphasis on the vertical, building UP as modern cities grew- Greatest advances made by the Chicago School, formed after

the Great Fire of 1871- Terracotta wrapped iron or steel

- Invention of THE ELEVATOR

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Tower

Paris, France

1889wrought iron984 ft. high

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Tower

Paris, France

1889wrought iron984 ft. high

Henry Hobson Richardson

Marshall Field wholesale store

Chicago, Illinois

1885-1887

Louis Henry Sullivan

Guaranty Building

Buffalo, New York

1894-1896

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Louis Henry Sullivan

Carson, Pirie Scott Building

Chicago, Illinois1899-1904

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