Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:

• Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea

• Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea
  • Color symbolism, the use of colors within various cultures and artworks to express a variety of symbolic meanings
• Symbolism (movement), a 19th-century artistic movement rejecting Realism
  • Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Russian symbolism, the Russian branch of the symbolist movement in European art

• Religious symbol, an iconic representation of a religion or religious concept
  • Buddhist symbolism, the use of Buddhist art to represent certain aspects of dharma
  • Christian symbolism, the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity
  • Symbols of Islam, the use of symbols in Islamic literature, art and architecture
  • Jewish symbolism, a visible religious token of the relation between God and man

• Symbolic anthropology, the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to better understand a particular society
• Symbolic system, a system of interconnected symbolic meanings
• Solar symbol, a symbol which represents the Sun in psychoanalysis, symbolism, semiotics, or other fields

• Symbolic representation (disambiguation)
• Symbolic (disambiguation)
• Symbology (disambiguation)
• Symbol (disambiguation)
• Realism (arts)
• Naturalism (arts)
• Representationalism
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