Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2014
We live in a world that in addition to the word communicates through symbols, that is, of the agreed meaning and deeply rooted in the culture that many of them hold.
This has obviously created the symbolism , which is precisely the system made up of symbols and which is used to represent different issues such as beliefs, facts, ideas and concepts.
It should be noted that the social groups that make up a society and to which we usually also join They have symbols that represent them and that as a consequence help them to be recognized and identified in the community in question. Thus, we find symbols that identify and single out associations of type cultural, politics, religious, sports, commercial, among others.
Freemasonry, for example, was one of the associations that most appealed to the use of symbols.
The cross is undoubtedly one of the symbols most associated with the Christian religion.
And on the other hand, with the word symbolism a movementartistic emerged in the nineteenth century, more precisely in the aftermath of this
. The raison d'ĂȘtre of symbolism is found in opposition to dominant proposals of those times such as the Naturalism and Realism and in the need to reconnect with the premises proposed by the Romanticism.The cultists of this movement, which spread rapidly among those who opposed the aforementioned positions, were inclined towards suggest objects instead of mentioning them directly and for exalting fantasy, imagination and giving their creations great spirituality.
It is worth noting that Symbolism was a movement that spread to almost all areas of the world. art such as the painting, the literature, the theater, among other. And it is also important that we point out that although it arose in Europe, it would quickly find an echo in the rest of the continents.
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