DECADENCE AND DARK DREAMS

Sensuousness, magic, a profound momentousness and irrationality are the hallmarks of the new art movement of Belgian Symbolism, whic h emerged during the 1880s. From Georg Minne and Félicien Rops to Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor, the portraits, figure paintings a nd landscapes revealed a fascination with the eerie and the nefarious, with Thanatos und Eros.