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New Aesthetic Theories - Coggle Diagram
New Aesthetic Theories
Universities and intellectual circles in France
In the last decades of 19th century
Théophile Gautier
Reflected the sense of frustration and uncertainty of the artist
reaction against materialism
Pre-Raphaelite
William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais criticized the style of Raphael
Rejected academic taste and classical doctrines
Praised the Italian art of 13th and 14th century
quality of medieval Italian painting with naturalistic accuracy of detail
William Morris's Arts and Crafts Movement
simple decoration
against contemporary aesthetic eclecticism
Aesthetic and the Decadents
medioeval erotic themes
combination of realism and symbolism
Walter Pater
Theory of the Aesthetic Movement in England
Successful with the young because the potentially demoralising message
Life lived in the spirit of art
feeling all kinds of sensations
It influenced Oscar Wilde