Charles Filiger, Madonna with Two Angels (or Madonna of the Fireflies), about 1892
This painting by Charles Filiger reveals how profoundly Paul Gauguin, the true genius of Symbolism, influenced his contemporaries. In his 1889 Yellow Christ, Gauguin showed how to abstract forms, intensify colors and awaken an almost medieval piety. Filiger pays homage to the peasant-like religiosity of Gauguin’s innovative rural scenes. “Be mysterious,” wrote Gauguin in what has to be the pithiest manifesto for Symbolism
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