0 a writer or an artist connected with symbolism (= a type of art and literature developed in the late 19th century that tries to express ideas or states of mind rather than represent the real world):
1 relating to symbolism (= a type of art and literature developed in the late 19th century that tries to express ideas or states of mind rather than represent the real world) or to artists or writers connected with it:
His influences included symbolists as well as the American abstract expressionists.
Klimt was regarded as a minor Austrian symbolist at that time.
What preoccupied the Symbolists was myth and the symbolism of gods, heroes, elves and fairies.
Hölderlin's difficult symbolist poetry has been revalued this century.
He links his work to symbolist artists such as Arnold Bocklin.
His portraits depict figures connected to the symbolist movement of the late 19th century.
This chapter explores the flipside of the symbolist fantasy that voices might float free from bodies.
In years past, these pages witnessed a heroic struggle between symbolists and connectionists.
