2- Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) was a French Symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and painter, best known today for his dreamlike paintings, which leaned toward abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to Surrealism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6XXTE2Jd98 https://brooklynrail.org/2005/11/artseen/beyond-the-visible-the-art-of-odilon-red/
3- José Villegas ( 1844 – 1921) was a Spanish painter of historical, genre and costumbrista scenes, inspired by the works of the Orientalist painters,
4- Paul Gauguin ( 1848 – 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism.
5- John Augustus Knapp ( 1853 – 1938) was an American artist best known for his esoteric paintings featured in Manly Palmer Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages.Knapp was deeply involved in the Cincinnati Theosophical Society and gave lectures to the members as part of a series of Tuesday evening lectures, essays, and readings.
6- Reginald W. Machell (1854-1927) was an English painter whose best-known work is The Path. He joined the Theosophical Society after meeting Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in London, and later moved to the Point Loma community, where he painted, wrote, and designed furniture.
7- Hermann Schmiechen (22 July 1855 – c. 1923 or 1925) was a German portrait painter and Theosophist. From 1884 to 1895 he was a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1901, Schmiechen, returning into Germany, settled in Berlin and joined the German section of the Theosophical Society.
8- Mikhail Vrubel (1856 – 1910) was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is generally characterized as one of the most important artists in Russian symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art.
9- Alphonse Osbert (1857 – 1939) was a French Symbolist painter. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism and Symbolism. Osbert abandoned naturalistic painting in favour of a Pointillist technique like that employed by Seurat and Signac. His signature style consists of ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed in the unearthly light of a sun or moon, rendered with abundant use of the colour blue. In the 1890s he was associated with Joséphin Péladan and his order, the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross.
10- Fernand Khnopff (1858 – 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter and one of the founding members of the avant-garde group Les XX in 1883. His paintings often depict isolation, desire, and the dual image of woman as femme fatale and angelic ideal, a recurring theme in symbolist art. Khnopff had close ties to British Pre-Raphaelitism, befriending Edward Burne-Jones and other British artists, and from 1895 was Brussels correspondent for the art journal The Studio.
11- Jan Toorop (1858 – 1928) was a Dutch painter who worked in various styles, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and Pointillism. His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. In 1905, he converted to Catholicism and began producing religious works. He also created book illustrations, posters, and stained glass designs.
12- Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylised and decorative theatrical posters. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of his career, at the age of 57, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to a series of twenty monumental symbolist canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926.
14-Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. He taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art.
15- Jean Delville (1867 – 1953) Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist, leading exponent of Belgian Idealist movement in art during 1890s. He was also a prolific and talented author, writing a seminal work on Idealist art, La Mission de l'Art (1900). He also created and edited several contemporary journals and newspapers during the 1890s promoting his Idealist aesthetic including L'Art Idéaliste and La Lumière. Delville was an energetic artistic entrepreneur, creating several influential artistic exhibition societies, including Pour l'Art and the Salons de l'Art Idéaliste in the 1890s and later, the Société de l'Art Monumental in the 1920s.
16- George William Russell (1867 – 1935) was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years. Æ claimed to be a clairvoyant, able to view various kinds of spiritual beings, which he illustrated in paintings and drawings.
17- Theodora Walter (1869 – 1959) Theodora Walter (b.1869 d.1959), daughter of a Trinidadian mother and grand-daughter of the English watercolourist, Theodore Walter (b.1832 d.1914), was a skilled botanical painter. She produced several studies of the Trinidadian landscape, of which Nudes at Macqueripe Bay is possibly the best known. Walter joined the Theosophical Society and developed a close friendship with Rudolph Steiner. Under the influence of the Theosophists, Walter developed a highly original style of painting which can be described as an early branch of Expressionism, produced in an attempt to depict their spiritual values.
18- Maurice Denis (1870 – 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the changing world of late 19th-century European art, Denis is associated with Les Nabis, Symbolism, and later Neo-classicism.[3] His theories contributed to the foundations of Cubism, Fauvism, and abstraction. After World War I, Denis founded the Ateliers d'Art Sacré (Workshops of Sacred Art), decorated the interiors of churches, and worked for a revival of religious art.
19- František Kupka ( 1871 – 1957) was a Czech painter and illustrator who moved from realism to abstract art, pioneering Orphism, Creation in the Plastic Arts, a book Kupka completed in 1913, was published in Prague in 1923. In 1931, he was a founding member of Abstraction-Création. In 1936, his work was included in the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and in an important show with another Czech painter, Alphonse Mucha, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. A retrospective of his work took place at the Galerie Mánes in Prague in 1946. The same year, Kupka participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, where he continued to exhibit regularly until his death. During the early 1950s, he gained general recognition and had several solo shows in New York.
20- Emily Carr ( 1871 – 1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today.
21- Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944) was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was taken down to simple geometric elements.He was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which he co-founded with Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neoplasticism.
22- Nicholas Roerich (1874 – 1947) was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. He is best known for his prolific body of artwork, which spans over 7,000 paintings, and his contributions to a wide array of cultural, political, intellectual, and artistic movements and causes. The Government of India has recognized him as a Navaratna, one of India's nine great artists whose work is protected as a national treasure.
23- John R Neill ( 1877 – 1943) was a magazine and children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than thirty books set in the Land of Oz. Those books include all but one of those written by L. Frank Baum, who was a Theosophist, as well as those written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, and three that Neill himself wrote. He also illustrated other books, and magazine and newspaper stories.
25- Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953)
https://theosophyart.org/2022/09/08/edmund-dulacs-influences-of-theosophy/
26-Lawren Harris ( 1885 – 1970)27- Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957)
https://bitterwinter.org/diego-rivera-and-esotericism-a-forgotten-relationship/
28- Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985)
29- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)
30- Adolfo Best Maugard (1891 – 1964
31- Emil Bisttram (1895–1976)
32- Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954)
33- Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956)
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a Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co in the design of decorative arts
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1980/october/theosophy/
b John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917)
https://victorianweb.org/painting/jww/occult.html
c Gaetano Previati ( 1852 – 1920)
d Luigi Russolo ( 1885 – 1947)
e José Clemente Orozco (1883 – 1949)
f Arthur Lismer (1885–1969).
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