24 Feb 12 – 17 Jun 12, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
amsterdam. Landscape is perhaps the most under-appreciated aspect of the symbolist movement, says Nienke Bakker, a curator at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the project leader of this exhibition, which aims to show how symbolists often used landscape “as a metaphor for mood and feeling”. “Dreams of Nature” features 70 paintings by a range of artists that trace the importance of landscape from early symbolist work to the beginnings of abstraction. Themes include visions of...
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