Art as a spiritual “drug” and a substitute religion, and the abnormal as a poisoned dart aimed at all that was natural - that was the holy/unholy alliance that explains the primary origins of the many artistic products of Symbolism.

Norbert Wolf, in his book on Symbolism

Above Left Thanatos I, Above Right Thanatos II by Jacek Malczewski

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