Symbolism

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery.In painting, symbolism was a continuation of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition, which included such artists as Caspar David Friedrich, Fernand Khnopff and John Henry Fuseli.
Developed during the 1860s and '70s

image of Symbolism

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/The_Death_of_the_Grave_Digger.jpg

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_(arts)#Symbolist_visual_artists