An Evening with the Symbolists: Magical—Spiritual Truths – Saturday – 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – April 11

Odilon Redon - The Cyclops - c. 1914 - Oil on canvas - 64 x 51 cm - Museum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo, The Netherlands (click photo for larger image)

WAA Director Jill Kiefer will be offering the following program at the

Katonah Art Center

131 Bedford Rd. Katonah, NY 10536

(914) 232-4843

Enjoy a glass of pinot with a presentation! Register Today!

During the decades before 1900—and into the twentieth century—the Symbolists were the avant-garde, and one of quite a new kind, influencing not only the arts but also the thought and spirit of the epoch. Symbolists believed that art should aim to capture absolute truths, so they worked in a highly metaphorical and suggestive manner. Endowing particular images or objects with symbolic meaning, they drew on everything from religious art to literature to dream imagery. The movement was a strong reaction against Naturalism and Realism—rejecting what they saw as the grit of the ordinary. They preferred, instead, to focus on dreams and the imagination—in their search for the Ideal. Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Edvard Munch are just a few of the artists we’ll explore during this mystical evening. (1 session – 3 hours, with a break midway through the program).