ABSTRACT
The role of the artist was to reveal the superior kingdom Symbolism was aspiring to. In Dorothy Kosinski's words, 'The artist is capable of deciphering the hieroglyphs of this world, of penetrating the mysterious truth of the ideal realm, and of communicating the hidden correspondences between the two realities in a universal language of symbols'. Symbolism rejected Judeo-Christianity, but its syncretism being based on the Judeo-Christian model, it is interesting to see that Symbolist artists looked into other forms of spirituality, and that they took a particular interest in Eastern spirituality and art. The Symbolists develop an anti-naturalist concept of the landscape, exploring the popular concepts of synaesthesiae and correspondences, to create landscapes which express an interior reality'. In the Symbolist context, homogenised by the common goal of reaching a fore-world, whatever form it took, the Promethean figure appeared as a protean but coherent image.
