Symbolist Shorts
Description: Salome Art Nouveau imagery takes center stage in The Climax by Aubrey Beardsley, a 1893 illustration featuring Salome and a long haired figure framed by ornate black and cream decoration. Beardsleys elegant line work and dramatic symbolism capture the spirit of fin de siecle art. A strong choice for admirers of Victorian illustration, literary history, museum culture and decorative design.
Description: Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon (also known as Ill Omen), created by the Scottish Symbolist artist Frances MacDonald MacNair (1873–1921) in 1893.
Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon Shorts
by Donkey's Salad
$21 $27
Description: Charles Mackintosh, 1868 - 1928, Scottish architect, designer and artist, husband to Margaret Macdonald. Both famous Art Nouveau, Symbolist artists from the last century. Featured here, 'The Wassail' is an image of the original gesso wall frieze made for a ladies tearoom. Gesso was applied over stretched hessian giving it a textured look with earthy colours. His wife, Margaret was commissioned at the same time to do a very similar panel which was also hung in the tearoom labelled, 'The May Queen'.
