Alfred Bocklin (1827-1901) was a swiss symbolist painter. The photo on top is one I took of his painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, so it's a crappy pic...I agree. The ones underneath are his works, googled of course. I like his work, didn't know why before until the class when Professor Hullot-Kentor spoke of being able to see the dynamic movement of the gesture in a painting, I didn't really understand until I looked at Bocklin's paintings again and realized that what drew me to them was that I created a narrative for each one according to the gestures. And even though his paintings are largely static, he has a lot of violence in his work.

Edward Burne-Jones (1817-1898) was a part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John William Waterhouse (one of my earlier posts). He was loving the drapery and chiaroscuro, but I like that his work is more stylized than classical.

Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was an Austrian Expressionist, illustrator, and writer. He was considered insane until he found art and was supposedly "cured". I don't really know...I don't think he did anything bad when they let him out of the asylum...but he did a lot of good art. He only did a few oil paintings, most of his work consists of pen and ink drawings, lithos, and watercolors. He is insane...and insanely talented.

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a symbolist painter. He started working in pastels and oils later in life but his extensive background in drawing carried through regardless of media.

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood along with Edward Burne Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and many others. Apparently, there was a motif of three part names within the group. The reason why you see this artist here along with the two below is because they take their references directly from mythology and literature and (once again, I'm biased) they do it so beautifully.

I figured since I did one of my earliest influences below...I might as well let the flood gates open and fill you in on some others. I promise to go back in and enter their histories but everyone knows that, if they are so inclined, they can always find the information lurking on the web somewhere.

The artist you see above is Jean Delville (1867-1953). He was an occultist and Belgian symbolist painter.
The two top pieces are done in charcoal, the bottom ones in oil. I would explain what I like and why I like it, but I'm totally biased. So you're free to make your own judgement.

Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) is a huge influence on me, I didn't actually do any research on him til later but I knew about him as a teenager when my art first began to flourish. I didn't know then that he was a painter/graphic artist in the early time of the abstract art movement and orphic cubism. He started out in realism and the works I was familiar with were the two on top. It all makes sense now :).