The art of Michael Alexandrovich Vrubel contributed to the establishment of the Symbolist movement in visual arts that flourished in Russia during the turn of the century. Though unappreciated in his own time, his art was given new life with the second generation of symbolists through association with the poetry of Block, Belyi, and Ivanov, the music of Scryabin and in Nijinsky’s choreography. Vrubel not only expressed himself in easel painting, but also in theater and costume design, decorative arts, sculpture, and book illustrations.