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7.	Vincent van Gogh Wheatfield with Reaper, 1889 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910

The first exhibition ever to be devoted to Symbolist Landscape will be the highlight of the Festival programme at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh this summer. Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 will bring together some 70 outstanding landscapes by 54 artists of the avant-garde, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch, Monet, Whistler, Mondrian and Kandinsky. The exhibition will also introduce the public to a group of less well known artists from Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe, such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Jacek Malczewski.

Symbolism was a radical movement of artists, poets, writers and composers that emerged in reaction to the industrial expansion and materialism of late-19th century Europe.  Symbolist artists abandoned the direct representation of nature or reality, creating instead a vision of the world drawn from the imagination. Their work explored powerful themes that reflected the anxieties and uncertainties of the age, including a fascination with death, dreams and the unconscious, fears about scientific advances and a questioning of man’s place in the world. 

Symbolist painting embraced a broad range of styles, and was closely linked to literature and other artforms; the relationship between art and music - a major preoccupation for some artists - will be a significant underlying theme of the exhibition.

Dates: from July 14 to October 14.
Location: Scottish National Gallery. The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL.
Opening hours: from Friday to Wednesday from 10am to 5pm. Thursdays from 10am to 5pm.


Enjoy more works of the exhibition in the following slideshow:

France
Retrato de Arlete Boucard, por Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

Tamara de Lempicka, the artist as femme fatale

Until September 8th, 2013

United Kingdom

Summer arrives to the Royal Academy

From June 10th to August 18th

Italy
Lara Almárcequi, Venice Biennale

Art (and Biennale) in Venice

Until Novemberl 24th

Holland
Autorretrato como artista,  por Van Gogh, 1887, Museo Van Gogh, Ámsterdam.

Van Gogh: radiograph of an innovator

Until January 12th, 2014

USA
Rain Room, by Random International, 2012

Instructions for controlling the rain

Until July 28th, 2013

Spain
Autorretrato, por Dennis Hopper, 1963, Los Angeles.The Dennis Hopper Art Trust

Through the lens of Dennis Hopper

Until September 29th 2013

Spain

Dalí: All his faces

From April 27th to September 2nd, 2013

México

Retrospective devoted to Rafael Coronel

from September 21 to January 13

Germany

Frank Stella. The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012

from September 8 to January 20

Spain

Zaha Hadid at Ivorypress

from September 4 to November 3

United Kingdom

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and drawings from Spain

from September 20 to January 6

Germany

Olympia: Myth - Cult - Games

through January 7

Sweden

Picasso, enemy of Duchamp

through March 3

Germany

Dark Romanticism. From Goya to Max Ernst

from September 26 to January 20

The Netherlands

'The Last Supper' (pink) by Andy Warhol

from October 6 to November 11

Australia

The Museo del Prado in Australia

until November 4

Spain

Antoni Tàpies. Head arms legs body

through November 4

Spain

William Blake. Visions in British Art

through October 21

Spain

The Mexican suitcase at the Fine Arts Circle in Madrid

from July 19 to September 30.

Spain

Luis Claramunt. The Vertical Journey

from July 13 to October 21

Spain

Picasso viewed by Otero

until September 23

United Kingdom

Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910

from July 14 to October 14.

United Kingdom

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012

from July 11 to September 23

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