| | | William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most... | | Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art. "The Scream" (1893; similar... | | Frida Kahlo (July 61907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism,... | | Dame Mary Douglas, DBE FBA, (March 25 1921 - 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. Her... | | André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist m... | | Achille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 - March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel he is considered the most prominent... | | Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 - April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris. Moreau's main focus was the... | | Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was the most important of the French Romantic painters. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study o... | | Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 - November 1943) was a French painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His... | | Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, G... | |