1. Symbolism

2. Symbolism
Discarded the visible world of surface appearances for the inner world of fantasy.

3. Henri Rousseau
Untrained hobby painter who quit his job at 40 to paint full time.
Rousseau believed his fantastic, childlike landscapes- full of strange, lurking animals and tree sized flowers- were realistic paintings in the academic style.

4. Henri Rousseau
His figures were flat and the scale, proportion and perspective were skewed

5. Fight Between a Tiger and Buffalo by Rousseau

6. Detail of a Fight Between a Tiger and Buffalo by Rousseau

7. The Dream by Rousseau

8. Detail of The Dream by Rousseau

9. The Sleeping Gypsy by Rousseau

10. Odilon Redon
Influenced by the disturbing poetry of Poe and Baudelaire, Redon created works that evoke a hallucinatory world.
He relied on radiant color and line.

11. Orpheus by Redon

12. The Crying Spider by Redon

13. The Cyclops by Redon

14. Albert Ryder
Painted pictures from his imagination and used simplified forms and yellowish light to create works of haunting intensity.

15. Albert Ryder
His painting were intentionally short on detail to create a mystical feeling
He worked in fits, slapping ill-prepared paint (even candle grease) onto wet under-coatings. As a result, all 150 of his painting are severely cracked.

16. The Flying Dutchman by Ryder

17. Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens by Ryder

18. The Forest of Arden by Ryder

19. Detail of The Forest of Arden by Ryder