Two texts published in the special edition of L’Objet d’art N. 124 (April 2018) on the occasion of the exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay “Wild Souls. Symbolism in the Baltic States” (April/July 2018). The first article focuses on the topic of portrait and landscape in the symbolic painting from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the second one on magazines, new papers, press and graphic design during the first decades of the 20th century, p. 50-57.