Symbolism

Symbolism is a pictorial (and more broadly artistic) movement that developed around 1870 and reached its peak in 1890.
Among the painters who adhered to it, we find both the South American Frida Kahlo and the French Paul Gauguin (considered the initiator of the movement) as well as Edvard Munch (The Scream) and of course, the most important of them all, Gustav Klimt, leader of the Viennese Secession, who with works like The Kiss or The Tree of Life, will elevate symbolism to a major art form and make it endure in the collective imagery, a century later.
Bringing together different currents, Symbolism, in painting, is characterized by a return to the spiritual (if not the religious), in reaction to the scientific and industrial developments that Europe was experiencing at the time.