Léon Spilliaert — Vertigo | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Léon Spilliaert — Vertigo | Symbolist Fine Art PrintLon Spilliaert (18811946) was a Belgian Symbolist and self taught artist whose lonely, vertiginous images of empty promenades, dark interiors, and solitary figures stand among the most psychologically penetrating works of the early 20th century. Working in Ostend in near isolation due to chronic insomnia and digestive illness, he developed a style of extreme tonal contrast and spatial distortion part Symbolism, part proto Expressionism, part

Pompeian arabesque — were the immediate source for the Arts & Crafts movement

he developed a systematic theory of colour and form set out in Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane

Co-founder of the De Stijl movement with Theo van Doesburg

scholars in mashrabiya-screened rooms

and muralist who became one of the leading figures of Dutch Symbolism and the Arts and Crafts movement

His final decade

and the modernist imagination of Weimar Germany

whose monumental canvases of the Rocky Mountains

bold and geometrically confident — was produced to promote domestic Soviet tourism during the mid-20th century

Trained in the Kanō tradition but working in a period of radical cultural transformation

almost abstract studies of trees — compositions reduced to pure shape

clean composition