Symbolism

Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.^[1] A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself.

Arts

• Symbolism (arts) or Symbolist, a 19th-century artistic movement rejecting Realism
  • Russian Symbolism

Religion

• Buddhist symbolism
• Christian symbolism
• Jewish symbolism
• Hindu symbolism
• Jain symbolism
• Sikh symbolism
• Solar symbols
• Islamic symbolism

Science

• Symbolic anthropology
• Symbolic system

See also

• Realism (arts)
• Realist visual arts
• Naturalism (arts)
• Representationalism
• The Treachery of Images
• Vexillology

References

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