AESTHETICISM

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AESTHETICISM

Features

Artists

Were seen as the transcribers of their percepition/sense of the world

Oscar Wilde

Was, in his twenties, an exemplary Aesthete

Journal

"The Yellow Book"

Was a leading British journal of the 1890s which was associated with Aestheticism,

Art

Not didactic

Not moralised

Not referred to life

Theory

Life as a "work of art"

Life should be lived in the spirit of art

Sense of the "attreactive" and the "gracious"

Feeling great sensations

Feeling all kind of sensations

Intense experiences

Art is the only certain

Reject the religious faith

Literary language

Absence of any didactic aim

Disenchantment with contemporary society

Perversity in subject metter

Hedonistic attitude

Excessive attention to the self

Evocative use of the language of sense

Origins

Walter Pater (1839-1894)

Had a deep influence on the artists and the writers of the 1890s

His masterpieces

Were immediately successful with the young because of their subversive and "demoralising" message

"Marius the Epicurean" (1885)

"Studies in the History of the Renaissance" (1873)

Was the theorist of the Aesthetic Movement in England