Symbolist Paintings

1940s Surrealistic Environmental Apocalypse Still Life Hawaiian Surrealism Symbolic still life of gas mask, dead wood pecker, clock and branches in mist of...

In this figurative abstract acrylic painting on canvas, Bhatt explores notions of life and death, the after-life, and reincarnation through the use of ancient Hindu symbolism. Amita Bhatt...

Oil on masonite Russian-Jewish-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his intriquing cubo-surrealistic-symbolist works which feature a strong psychological elemen...

Vibrant and expressive figurative work by John Lancaster (British, Born circa 1930). An adult figure looks into the distance, with its back to the viewe...

This large artwork is an early work from the figurative, symbolist artistic period of Françoise Duprat. It depicts a blue-haired woman looking in a l...

This minimalist oil painting on paper is part of a series, which references a mantra of Amita Bhatt’s, “life is a circus.” Floating in space, the characte...

This minimalist oil painting on paper is part of a series, which references a mantra of Amita Bhatt’s, “life is a circus.” Floating in space, the characte...

This graphite and acrylic painting on canvas is from a series called "Lovers and Assassins." Here you can see Bhatt playing with the idea of seduction, self-sacrifice, persecution, belief systems, and radicalization. Amita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Bhatt’s work has been exhibited at noteworthy venues such as the Bluestar Contemporary Art Center, Walters Art Museum, The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Project Row Houses, all in the United States as well as Museo Pedro de Osma in Peru. Amita Bhatt has also been the recipient of several prestigious awards and recently served as a Grant Panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts. Bhatt's works are included in many important private and public collections. Bhatt digs deep into world philosophies and mythologies to answer questions pertaining to our political as well as personal belief systems. Unafraid to explore uncomfortable territories, Amita mines from a range of sources to create hybrid creatures that are often symbolic of man’s psychological condition in an angst-ridden zeitgeist. In exploring issues of identity and violence, Bhatt’s research led her to the beginnings of mankind. Most ancient creation myths claim chaos to be the central truth marking the beginnings of the world. Should turbulence then be viewed as essential to new beginnings? Bhatt’s characters are packed with irony, humor and indifference, and navigate intense color fields, all in search of wisdom and truth. They mirror the tumultuous times we live in, yet they know that there are deep Karmic mysteries that need to be understood and that HOPE in the end is what will sustain them. Amita Bhatt "Be Born From...

Menashe Kadishman, Sheep head, Symbolist painting, colored painting, Israeli art, Israeli art

This minimalist oil painting on paper is part of a series, which references a mantra of Bhatt’s, “life is a circus.” Floating in space, the characters portrayed in this work play out their roles, while remaining unaware of the full scope of their surroundings. Amita Bhatt...

This graphite and acrylic painting on canvas is from a series called "Lovers and Assassins." Here you can see Bhatt playing with the idea of seduction, self-sacrifice, persecution, b...

This graphite and acrylic painting on canvas is from a series called "Lovers and Assassins." Here you can see Bhatt playing with the idea of seduction, self-sacrifice, persecution, b...

Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolism -- Stairway to Destiny Symbolic figurative abstract with climbing stairway in bright spring colors by Marguerite Loui...

"Asceticism" Painting 16" x 30" inch by Ahmed Saber Color Pencil and Acrylic on Paper. AHMED SABER - BIO Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxor in Upper Egypt, where he r...

Hans Bertle (Austrian, 1880-1943) Geburt des Todes - Kain und Abel (Birth of Death - Cain und Abel) • Symbolistic painting • Oil on canvas, ca. 62 x 72 cm • Original Frame, ca. 87 ...

The Pinajian story is one of near loss, discovery and posthumous success. A compatriot of De Kooning and friend of fellow Armenian-American Gorky, Pinajian was a member of the post-...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite theme is the dialogue between the human being and his creator. Gilbert Pauli's messages are universal, without any racial, religious or even cultural reference, with the sole purpose of love for man. From 1986, he worked relentlessly and in a self-taught way to discover the different painting and sculpture techniques: first gouache, followed by dry pastel. These lead him to watercolor, and oil, through charcoal and acrylic. He died in Geneva in 2020 and the Gijsel Gallery...

Artist/ School: Josnye Gallet (French signed and dated 1972) Title: Surrealist floating figures in a space like atmosphere. Medium: signed verso, oil painting on canvas, unframed....

Symbolic figurative of woman having visions with religious themes and icons (cross, bride, salamander, crown, meeting Christ) while reading by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...

Menashe Kadishman, Sheep head, Acrylic on canvas, mystical painting, symbolist, Israeli artist, Israeli art, art

Vibrant painting of a glowing woman, perhaps Gaia (Mother Earth) in a flowerbed by Richard Elliot Poole (American, 20th Century). Dynamic flowers ...

GREG CLARK "LEAVING THE GARDEN" MIXED MEDIA ON COPPER, SIGNED CALIFORNIA, DATED 1992 32 X 48 INCHES GREGORY CLARK IS AN ARTIST FROM SAN DIEGO CALIFO...

Acrylic on theatrical backdrop muslin, can be rolled, rod pockets top and bottom for hanging. This painting was featured at the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto in 2018. Kali is the goddess of eternal energy, creation and destruction. She covers it all. Janet has both shown and taught with Alex...

Striking and atmospheric painting of North Yorkshire’s Whitby Abbey ruins by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Whitby Abbe...

Menashe Kadishman, Sheep head, Symbolist painting, colored painting, Israeli art, Israeli art

"Sunflowers and burdocks" is a still-life painting by the impressionist Alexandr Reznichenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition...

This abstract oil painting discusses notions of duality. A garden represents the intersection between nature and culture. As depicted in the painting, there is an abstract human figure...

Framed 21.2 X 25.5 Unframed 17 X 21 Signed and dated 1920. Nina Karasek (Joële) born 1883 Kuttenberg, Czech Lands, Austro-Hungarian Empire, died in 1952 (I have also seen the date recorded as 1933) Vienna, Austria. Nina Karasek was an Austrian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1883. Her work was featured in exhibitions at the Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art and the Bildraum Bodensee. Little is known of Nina Karasek's life. She was born in 1883 in Kuttenberg (Kutná Hora) in Bohemia, studied art at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School for Women and Girls) in Vienna, Austria, under Adalbert Seligmann and Tina Blau. She studied at the Frauenakademie in Vienna and Munich. In the 1920's she worked first as a landscape painter and an illustrator, later turning toward symbolism, painting mystical subjects after her interest in spiritualism. Her conventional works were shown at various exhibitions. At the age of 44, while she was copying a work by Rembrandt in an Italian museum, she fell into an altered state of consciousness. Rembrandt appeared to her, took possession of her arm, and immediately her hand started to draw something quite different from what she had intended. From then on, for the rest of her life Nina Karasek was in “supernatural” contact with a series of great masters like Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer, Goya, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Gustav Klimt and others. Under their guidance and inspiration, she drew and painted works "in the style" of the masters. But very soon her works became stylistically more and more unrestricted and Symbolist, showing an enormous range of creative expression, ranging from symbolic and allegorical motifs to bewildering images with a fantastic arsenal of figures and private characters, signs, and symbols, and to frantic, gestural sketches and abstract compositions. From then on, she often signed her works with her esoteric “primordial name” Joële. (Nina Karasik-Joel) Almost everything we know about her life was from what she noted on the reverse of her drawings: sometimes diary-like notes of her horrible living conditions during World War II, but often strangely impenetrable explanations of the depicted motifs – often as fascinating and mysterious as the drawings themselves. In her works and notes, an exciting private cosmology and mythology unfolds, a drama of hidden powers and principles that flow through macrocosm as well as microcosm. Shortly after their discovery, Nina Karasek's Spiritualist, mediumistic works have found their way into galleries and major international collections. SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2019 The Medium’s Medium: Spiritualist Art Practices From the Turn of the Century and Beyond. The Gallery of Everything, London, (she showed with Madge Gill...

"Woman & Rabbit" Charcoal on Paper Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Saber * Due to the Ministry of Culture policy + COVID situation, handling time (paperwork) may take up to 1-3 month. AHMED SABER - BIO Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist...

Menashe Kadishman, Sheep head, Symbolist painting, colored painting, Israeli art, Israeli art

This abstract figurative oil painting on canvas discusses the continuing cycles of life and death; exploring aspects of faith that are inspired by the relationship between destructio...

Taya Bell (born 1974 in Semey, Kazakhstan) was educated in Almaty until 2000, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Arts, as well as degrees in Pedagogy and Foreign Language. From 2...

Born in Queens, NY to a family of artists, inventors and actors, Lizbeth Mitty grew up painting and writing. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in both the United States and abroad and is held in public and private collections including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York State Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Zimmerli Archive, The U.S. State Department, and Trierenberg Holding AG (Austria). My studio is located in Brooklyn, NY. Described by New York Times critic Ken Johnson as a combination of “painterly verve and hellish beauty” — Mitty's work has long been concerned with examining and amplifying the intrinsic abstract beauty of deteriorating or overlooked corners of urban architecture and interiors. In 2015, one object, the chandelier, rose up from detritus to dominate her body of work. Spectacular, illuminated and intricate, the chandelier is evocative of grandeur. In contrast, for much of Mitty's career, scrap yards and other sites of urban devastation, locations of organized chaos, formally beautiful, yet apocalyptic and terrifying. Similarly, the chandeliers speak of decadence, sadness, elegance, death and hope. By 2017, the chandeliers began to open and morph into architecture in the round. Gazebos and scrap dominate a verdant post-apocalyptic landscape...

A striking image from Gail Potocki's Seven Deadly Sins series, Lust is personified through a figure encircled by caressing tentacles Inspired by Hokusai's 1814 woodblock "The Dream o...

Aija Zariņa is a prominent personality in Latvian art, actively advocating for idealism and personal freedom, against conformism. Her main theme is human existence, its fundamental c...

Gail Potocki's study from her Seven Deadly Sins series personifies Sloth through a frozen figure and her icy snail companion. Symbolist oil painting on linen, 2017. This artwork is presented professionally framed and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Gail Potocki (b. 1961) is a contemporary artist whose work crosses multiple boundaries: she has been lauded by popular media (Huffington Post, Mother Jones) and pop culture art...

"In the edge of Poussin and Van Gogh" is a still-life painting by the impressionist Alexandr Reznichenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contempo...

This oil on canvas painting is inspired by the Hindu Goddess Kaamdhenu, the mother of all cows and Bhatt’s recurring symbol of desire. The bovine figure cradles two humanistic figu...

"Sirah" is a still-life painting by the impressionist Alexandr Reznichenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed ...

This oil on canvas painting blends Greek and Hindu theology to discuss questions concerning justice and morality. In the Greek Mythos, Prometheus was a Titan of fire and forethought...

"Bordeaux" is a still-life painting by the impressionist Alexandr Reznichenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : Unique, sign...

This abstract oil painting underscores the difference between notions of dark and light, challenging our ideas of how we distinguish good and evil. The firefly is a nocturnal creatur...

abstract "Golden sky" acrylic on linen canvas 750x73cm light yellow gold see taking the liberty of painting a type of sky that does not exist, an improbable water color… it is quite ...

abstract "Landfill" acrylic linen canvas 73x60cm colourfull tsunami in this painting, Emmanuelle Vroelant worked on the idea of all that we bury, deep inside ourselves or that Nature...

This large artwork figures a bamboo forest in the night. The artist impasto technique is light, with textured painting and a few small reliefs. This artwork is not framed. Françoi...

This oil on canvas painting is inspired by the Hindu Goddess Kaamdhenu, the mother of all cows and Bhatt’s recurring symbol of desire. The dismembered human figures featured in tan...

Albert Auguste FOURIE (1854-1937) The Naiad And The Swan Oil on Wood signed low left New golden and invory stick frame Dim wood panel : 35 X 27 ...

In this large abstract oil painting, Bhatt explores notions of desire, life and death, good versus evil, and their roles in the cycle of creation and destruction through ancient E...

The abstract figure depicted in this oil on canvas painting is an embodiment of all the different shades that color the human soul; good and evil, light and dark, sacred and profane ...

This oil on canvas painting captures a playful approach to serious concerns. Viewing life as a circus act, Bhatt arranges figures that evoke emotions such as fear, aggression, and ...

KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker and Art in America, among others. Images of her commission for the New York MTA, stained glass windows at the Rockaway Beach...

Oil and oil stick Whether the subject matter is figuration or nature, Audrey Anastasi approaches all her subjects directly and unabashedly. In this pa...

Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. This is from the God and Goddess Series, Morgan's Supreme Being, nearly 200 deities both new and new takes on tra...

Cross - as the unity of the world. 2009, oil on canvas, 83x67 cm

Fate. 2008, oil on canvas, 100x80 cm Fantasy painting with ship and sun

Acrylic on theatrical backdrop muslin, can be rolled, rod pockets top and bottom for hanging. This painting was featured at the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto in 2018. Kuan Yin...

oil on canvas on heavy duty stretcher framing recommended but not required. By in large Basso is self taught. (after initially attending the School of Visual Arts taking evening cour...

Shay Kun, balloon air, oil on canvas, Figurative, symbolist style, landscape, Israeli-american artist, Israeli art, 2012