Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
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Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...
, a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
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Symbolist movement in Romania
The Symbolist movement in Romania, active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, marked the development of Romanian culture in both literature and visual arts. Bringing the assimilation of France's Symbolism, Decadence and Parnassianism, i ...
, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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Russian symbolism
Russian symbolism was an intellectual and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It arose separately from European symbolism, emphasizing mysticism and ostranenie.
Literature
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, the Russian branch of the symbolist movement in European art
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Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different conc ...
, something that represents, stands for or suggests an idea, belief, action, or entity
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Color symbolism, the use of colors within various cultures to express a variety of symbolic meanings
Religion
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Religious symbol
A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion.
Religious symbols have been used in the military in many countries, such as the United States military chap ...
, an iconic representation of a religion or religious concept
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Buddhist symbolism
Buddhist symbolism is the use of symbols ( Sanskrit: ''pratīka'') to represent certain aspects of the Buddha's Dharma (teaching). Early Buddhist symbols which remain important today include the Dharma wheel, the Indian lotus, the three jewels ...
, the use of Buddhist art to represent certain aspects of dharma
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Christian symbolism
Christian symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity. It invests objects or actions with an inner meaning expressing Christian ideas.
The symbolism of the early Church was characterized by bei ...
, the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity
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Symbols of Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God (Allah) and that Muhammad is the last messenger of God. It is the world's second-largest religion, with over 1.9 billion followers, and Muslims form 24.4% of the w ...
, the use of symbols in Islamic literature, art and architecture
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Jewish symbolism, a visible religious token of the relation between God and man
Science
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Symbolic anthropology
Symbolic anthropology or, more broadly, symbolic and interpretive anthropology, is the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be used to gain a better understanding of a particular society. According to Clifford Geertz, " lieving, wi ...
, the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to better understand a particular society
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Symbolic system
In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules.
The alphabet of a formal language consists of sym ...
, a system of interconnected symbolic meanings
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Solar symbol
A solar symbol is a symbol representing the Sun.
Common solar symbols include circles (with or without rays), crosses, and spirals.
In religious iconography, personifications of the Sun or solar attributes are often indicated by means of a hal ...
, a symbol which represents the Sun in psychoanalysis, symbolism, semiotics, or other fields
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Symbolic representation (disambiguation) Symbolic representation may refer to:
* Symbol, an object that represents, stands for, or suggests an idea, belief, action, or material entity
* Symbolism (disambiguation), various meanings in art, religion, and science
* Symbolic linguistic repres ...
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Symbolic (disambiguation)
Symbolic may refer to:
* Symbol, something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity
Mathematics, logic, and computing
* Symbolic computation, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas
* Symbolic dynamic ...
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Symbology (disambiguation)
Symbology concerns the study of symbols.
Symbology may also refer to:
* Semiotics, study of signs and symbols
* Barcode symbology, a term used to denote a type of barcode mapping representation.
* Symbol (programming)
* Symbolic anthropology, div ...
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Symbol (disambiguation)
A symbol is something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity.
Symbol may also refer to:
Computing
* Symbol (computing), a data structure used by a language translator
* Symbol (data), the smallest amount of data transmitted ...
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Realism (arts)
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are n ...
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Naturalism (arts)
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are n ...
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Representationalism
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