What's the difference between symboliser and symbolist?

Symboliser


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Symbolist


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  • (n.) One who employs symbols.

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  • (1) Moreau was a master of symbolist painting, who lived and worked in this grandiose house, which the artist himself had designed in the 19th century and today exhibits a quite incredible 1,300 of his striking works.
  • (2) Based loosely on Dante's Inferno, the novel once again features Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon – the protagonist from best-sellers The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol – as it follows Sienna, his balding female companion, to the sprawling city of 13 million.
  • (3) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.
  • (4) Born 1894, real name Lucy Schwob – her uncle was the great Symbolist writer Marcel Schwob – Cahun was educated at the Sorbonne, moved to Montparnasse in 1922 and spent the subsequent 16 years in the French capital.
  • (5) The most brilliant period of his career had been the years before the first world war when, with JD Innes, he helped create a small symbolist movement in Britain.
  • (6) The monument was unveiled in Moscow in November of that year by the representative of the Moscow Soviet, with a tribute by the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov.
  • (7) It was here that he refined his incomparable talent for drawing, but in his early years he was drawn to history painting – young Spartans , Semiramis – and the dreamy style of symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau .
  • (8) It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual.
  • (9) Twombly described himself as a "Romantic symbolist" and that could, at a stretch, be applied to Turner and Monet too.
  • (10) Photograph: Santiago Arau Novo went to school with the city’s intellectual elite in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, but, while the other poets of his generation read the French symbolists and drank tea in French-like salons, he frequented the azoteas and, on occasions, the vecindades.
  • (11) Museum-goers know much more about Russia’s avant-garde –painters such as Malevich and Kandinsky – so the exchange is an opportunity to shine a rare light on Russian painters from the Realist, Impressionist and Symbolist movements, she said.
  • (12) Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations.

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