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OSCAR WILDE Martini e Taroni - Coggle Diagram
OSCAR WILDE Martini e Taroni
Oscar Wilde was the most representative artist in England of
AESTHETIC
movement.
In his novel
“The picture of Dorian Grey”
he spread the idea of the
importance of beauty expressed in art
that is eternal unlike everything else.
He also wrote an interesting preface which will be the manifesto of the english estitc movement.
With
“The Studio
”, Wilde made it clear that
what was important in a book was not the content but the form
because what is written should appeal to all the senses and only this gives pleasant sensations.
In fact for him
there are no moral or immoral books
but there are only well written books and badly written books so consequently you can write whatever you want, provided the form is beautiful.
Art became something useless,
contrary to what the Victorian mentality thought.
the writer describes
beautiful spaces
describing the studio in a wonderful way with
a lot of detail
in which
everything appeals to our senses
(this is important because it provides a pleasant sensation in the reader).
beauty is supported by the use of the senses.
The content is characterized by detail leading to beautiful people, spaces and sensation.
DECADENTISM
Is a movement that was
characterised by feelings of disgus
t towards the society of the time
The main features of this movement are
The focus on form, like the estetism
Temptation to escape to reach a higher reality
The artists of the decadence
used crude humor to express their emotions and they believed in the superiority of human creativity over the natural world.
In fact they are
against Naturalism and Realism
SALOME
This novel by Wilde is the story of a destructive love of the princess Salome for Jokanan. This passage deals with a dialogue between the two in which the princess expresses to her beloved the love that she feels toward him.
The princess says the reasons why she loves Jochannan like the body, hair and lips. To describe these parts of his body she uses beautiful images like the fact that his body is white as a lelis.
The images also suggest sensual descriptions supported by the sensation of touch. The girl's compliments are followed by threatening and very crude phrases from Johanan, who rejects the princess's love.
Afterwards Salome in fact angrily changes her attitude, and adds insults to the compliments by saying that his body, his lips and his hair are horrible things.
This passage expresses the fundamental concept of decadence, that is the love for perverse effects, a little excessive but very full of sensuality and beauty.
AESTHETISM: "THE STUDIO"