![]() Following a somewhat traditional artistic apprenticeship with artist Jan Portael in Brussels, he shifted towards Symbolism in 1887 at the tender age of 20. ![]() Pledging allegiance to the imagination and the surreal, these artists were actively renouncing modernity and the growth of industrialisation that the enveloped their lives. Jean Delville was among the united Belgian exponents that were generated from the incredible growth of literature that took place during the 1880s. However, in a similar vein to the Mannerists of the sixteenth century these avant-garde artists were able to form a collective group whose limitations were defined by the common sources of inspiration, techniqe and ideal. Due to the wide diversity and sources of inspiration for these so-called Symoblist artists, they were unable to call themselves a 'school'. ![]() ![]() Running concurrent with the self-proclaimed literary Symbolists, a new school of artists extolling simple, peotic painting, opposed to naturalism and the virtuosity and vulgarity of academic art came to exist under the same title. ![]()
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