Labels:bulletin board | chat room | earth | grass | person | reckoner | sky OCR: Symbolism: late nineteenth-century movemeni devot ed conveying private impressions anc intuitive sensa tions in a language other than that of bourgeois "reality. Symbolist style of painting: eventually cQa lesced in Hol- land and Belgium, with Emile Verhaeren (1855 1916) act- ing as its chief spokesperson and theorist but for Vincent and Theo van Gogh Symbolism remained literary phe- Symbolist poets talked of libera ting technique from 1l rules The French poets Charles Baudelaire Ste- phane Mallarme and Paul Verlaine helped codify the Symbolist quest for absolute fluidity and the triumph af evacat tion aver description The first substantive review of Van Gogh's painting appeared in the principal organ f Symbolist criticism Le Mercure de France When Theo speaks of- symbolism, "he infers tha ...