art movement vs symbolism

symbolism vs art movement

art movement and symbolism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
art movement	Yes	No	No	No
symbolism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, symbolism is a hyponym of art movement; that is, symbolism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than art movement:

art movement: a group of artists who agree on general principles
symbolism: an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images

Other hyponyms of art movement include Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Ash Can, Ashcan school, Impressionism, Pop Art, Ashcan School, Eight, pointillism, art deco, deco, art nouveau, avant-garde, new wave, van, vanguard, constructivism, suprematism, cubism, dada, dadaism, expressionism, fauvism, futurism, Hudson River school, romantic realism, imagism, lake poets, luminism, minimal art, minimalism, reductivism, naturalism, realism, neoromanticism, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, secession, sezession, surrealism, Caravaggism, spatialism, Ultraism, acmeism, aleatoric music, aleatory music, chance music, bruitism, neue wilden, artificialism, anti-theatre, folklorism, miserabilism, literary movement.

art movement (noun)	symbolism (noun)
a group of artists who agree on general principles	the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
	a system of symbols and symbolic representations
	an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images

Difference between art movement and symbolism

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