MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Martin Creed, Guy Maddin, Odilon Redon
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Le drageoir a epices (1874) (prose poems after baudelaire) A character in his book gustave moreau (1862-1989) wrote books and created paintings. Art movement connected with symbolist movement in french poetry (1880s- Reaction to naturalism of impression & realism. Essential principle of art is to clothe the idea in sensuous form ; to resolve conflict b/t the material and the spiritual world. Poetry - a symbolic expression of inner life. To name an object is to destroy poetic enjoyment, which crome from gradual divination. It is the perfect use of this mystery which constitutes symbol an object must be gradually evoked in order to show a state of soul. - stephane mallarme. How do symbols operate and function: deeply, fullness to symbol that you. Describe precisely, intuition, sense of striving to find the inner self. Symbolist manifesto - 18 sept 1886 - jean moreas (1856-1910) Near impossible to find a manifesto on anything on modern newspaper.