So here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: symbolism
Genre: portrait
Symbolist portraits are totally different from those of
realists,
impressionists and others. In realism a person is portrayed to capture the typical characteristics of the type of people of a certain class, profession or social status rather than a person possessing some individual traits.
Romanticists saw a person as a bundle of emotions…
the launching ground for the struggle between a personality and the society, between history and modern day, the passion and the duty, the will and fate. For impressionists a person is just another subject to depict a fleeting moment, the flickering light, the ephemeral impression of a hand movement or the drapery froufrou. As for symbolists, they viewed a person as a mystery that can be riddled with the help of symbols and prompts the transcendent reality sends in abundance. The world of symbolists is irrational, impossible to grasp falling on your reasoning. It can only be perceived on the emotional level through interpreting symbols that can lead you to the heart of the events, people and phenomena. A person portrayed by symbolists is a spiritual being, a godlike creature that belongs to the transcendent world, and this connection to the higher spiritual energy comes through in the form of love. The mysticism inherent to this style makes a household portrait or scenes of daily life flat and lacking purpose. What symbol, what mystery can an average man introduce into mediocre daily routine? Symbolists turned to the medieval ages, to mythological and biblical characters for grand conceptions and sublime emotions. Hence we have the cult for the “femme fatale”, the dragon lady so adored and cherished by symbolists. People in symbolist portraits resemble statues, they are not often found in dynamic positions. The draughtsmanship is stylized or obscure to contribute to the artistic message and the composition. The colours are faded and symbolic – red may symbolize love and green can stand for hope. Each detail alone and in combination with others contains a mystery to solve, and the people portrayed belong somewhere out of this world, since a mystical man of symbolism is an image through which the eternity speaks to us, it’s an advanced spiritual entity to behold with the help of elusive symbols.
A person who prefers symbolist portraits is a desperate romantic, he is routinely in love and suffering. When making decisions he relies on emotions and intuition and tends to take interest in esoteric learnings. His fancies are short-lived, once any activity or information borders on routine he falls off the wagon. Despite that, the people he cares about can always rely on him support, his exotic views of life have nothing to do with the way he treats his friends. He is reliable and thoughtful, and not only can he stay and help when times are hard, but he will stay and applaude you when you are successful, which is a rare quality. His rampant energy and enthusiasm just need to be put to good use. It may be a business launched to be sold, not to sustainably develop and live from. Or it could be a job that presupposes frequent travel and meeting new people. Or it may be – and it should be ideally – any kind of creative activity.
Must-see for you:
Maitres: Gabriel von Max, Franz von Stuck/Franz von Stuck (Germany), Gustav Klimt (Austria), Chimon Loghi (Macedonia), Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Great Britain), Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon (France), Arnold Böcklin (Switzerland), Fernand Khnopff (Belgium), V. Borisov-Musatov, M. Vrubel (Russia)
Modern artists: Saprykin V., Siuzeva N.G. (Russia), Siproshvili G. (Georgia)
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