Collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Jean Delville, Belgian symbolist painter, at the end of the 19th century, Belgium was one of the important centers of symbolism in Europe.
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
LEcole du silence, oil on canvas, 153x180cm, 1929
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
The Idol of Perversity
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
Jean Delville: Portrait of Josephine Peradon in Rosicrucian robes
The School of Plato. 1898, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. JEAN DELVILLE (1867-1953), Belgian Symbolist painter, at the end of the 19th century, Belgium was one of the important centers of Symbolism in Europe. Picture 2 shows Jean Delville: The Fallen Idol. 'At the end of the 19th century, there were a large number of works with aesthetic and decadent tendencies, and their artistic expression was very delicate and detailed, and they had a very important slogan of "art for art's sake".
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
Symbolism opposed the secular worldview, scientific theories, and realist aesthetics that prevailed in the 19th century; Embraces a spiritual, imaginative and stylized aesthetic. In this context, some young people began to use symbolist concepts to create art, one of the most famous of which was the Salon of the Rosicrucian, and in the spring of 1892, the French symbolist novelist Joséphin Péladan (1859–1918), launched the first Salon of the Rosicrucian in Paris, aiming to promote art, especially art that gives people a deep feeling, as a way to oppose the prevailing materialist ideas in Europe. That is, the popular art of focusing on real life at that time. The name derives from peradan's cult of rosicrucianism, which demonstrates the art of mystical symbolism, especially the alchemical, spiritual form pursued by the eccentric Peradan. Although few people now know about this salon, it was known to everyone at the end of the 19th century. For the artists, these salons are an international crossroads, some conservative and some radical, yet most try to emphasize the spiritual dimension of art, trying to evoke the imaginative dimension of the viewer's mind.
Paintings by the Belgian painter Jean Delville
These transcendent ambitions were also inherited by the pioneers of abstract painting in the early 20th century. The salon reached a worldwide reach and played an important role, bringing together works by artists from Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. Benefit from extensive research on the artworks on the earliest exhibitions, which include paintings, paintings on paper, and sculptures, among which the artists Anthony Bürdele, Jean Derville, Charles Feliger, Fernan klopf, Jan Tolop, Max Klinger, Hodler and many more.
