Faun by Moonlight Source: Wikimedia Commons If you want to create a spooky atmosphere in your home this fall, look no further than the work of Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert. Spilliaert’s art is characterized by dark color schemes, enigmatic subjects, desolate landscapes and lots of drama. Spilliaert’s uniquely gloomy style emerged from the Symbolist movement. The Symbolists felt that artists should seek a higher truth in their work. Like the Romantics before them, Symbolists turned toward an emotionally rich and psychologically complex visual lexicon. However, while the Romantics often accomplished this through painting the natural world, Symbolists pursued a more abstract approach. As the name suggests, Symbolist artists used a symbolic language to convey an internal world of thoughts and emotions. Spilliaert achieved this through a dark and dramatic form of introspection, which is on display in paintings like Faun by Moonlight . The piece depicts a faun playing pipes as he leads a h...
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