1. 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

2. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Sacred Grove
1884
oil on canvas
2 ft. 11 1/2 in. x 6 ft. 10 in.

3. Odilon Redon
The Cyclops
1898
oil on canvas
2 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”

4. Henri Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897
oil on canvas
4 ft. 3 in. 6 ft. 7 in.

5. Aubrey Beardsley
The Peacock Skirt
for Oscar Wilde’s Salome
1894
pen-and-ink illustration

6. Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893
oil, pastel and casein on cardboard
2 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”

7. Gustav Klimt
The Kiss
1907-1908
oil on canvas
5 ft. 10 3/4 in. x 5 ft. 10 3/4 in.

8. Gustav Klimt
Death and Life
1908-11
oil on canvas
70 1/8 x 78 in.

9. Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Adams Memorial
1891
bronze
5 ft. 10 in. high

10. Auguste Rodin
Walking Man
1905
bronze
6 ft. 11 3/4 in. high

11. Auguste Rodin
Burghers of Calais
1884-1889
bronze
6 ft. 10 1/2 in. high

12. 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

13. William Morris
Green Dining Room
1867

14. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Ingram Street Tea Room
Glasgow, Scotland
1900-1902

15. 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

16. Victor Horta
staircase in the
Van Eetvelde House
Brussels, Belgium
1896

17. Louis Comfort Tiffany
Lotus Table Lamp
ca. 1905
leaded favrile glass, mosaic and bronze
2 ft. 10 1/2 in. high

18. Antonio Gaudi
Casa Milá
Barcelona, Spain
1907

20. 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

21. Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
1889
wrought iron
984 ft. high

22. Alexandre-
Gustave
Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
1889
wrought iron
984 ft. high

23. Henry Hobson Richardson
Marshall Field
wholesale store
Chicago, Illinois
1885-1887

24. Louis Henry Sullivan
Guaranty Building
Buffalo, New York
1894-1896
FORM
FOLLOWS
FUNCTION

25. Louis Henry Sullivan
Carson, Pirie Scott
Building
Chicago, Illinois
1899-1904
FORM
FOLLOWS
FUNCTION