from fine-arts-museum:
"Belgium was a favoured place for symbolism. So it is no surprise that this movement is brilliantly represented at the Museum. For Fernand Khnopff, Jean Delville, William Degouve de Nuncques and the British artist Edward Burne-Jones (The wedding procession of Psyche), the important thing was not to reproduce reality, but to suggest the mysterious and evoke the hidden soul of people and things in a poetic and sometimes anguished fashion. Finally, the incomparable work by James Ensor (Skeletons fighting for a smoked herring) to which an entire room is dedicated, heralds art in the 20th century."
"Belgium was a favoured place for symbolism. So it is no surprise that this movement is brilliantly represented at the Museum. For Fernand Khnopff, Jean Delville, William Degouve de Nuncques and the British artist Edward Burne-Jones (The wedding procession of Psyche), the important thing was not to reproduce reality, but to suggest the mysterious and evoke the hidden soul of people and things in a poetic and sometimes anguished fashion. Finally, the incomparable work by James Ensor (Skeletons fighting for a smoked herring) to which an entire room is dedicated, heralds art in the 20th century."
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