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Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement
Oscar Wilde's life
He was born in Dublin in 1854
Works
Poetry: Poems (1891), The Ballad of Readinggaol(1898)
Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of no Importance (1893), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Salomé (1893).
Fairy tales: The Happy Prince and other Tales (1888), The House of Pomegranates (1891)
Novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
He died of meningitis in Paris in 1900
He was poor because he spent some years in jail for an homosexual affair with Lord Alfred Douglas
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas
Education
Trinity College
Oxford University
He's a briliant student.
Influences
Walter Pater
He was the theorist of Aestheticism
A dandy with an extravagant personality
The dandy and the bohemian differentiate from their social class
The dandy: belongs to the upper class
The bohemian: belongs to lower class.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's only novel
Set in London at the end of 19th century, it is about a handsome man who achieves eternal beauty thanks to a portrait, which takes for him the signs of aging and the marks of his bad actions. He ends up staining himself with crimes and murders and tries to free himself from his sins stabbing the painting.
A profoundly allegorical story
The moral is that every excess must be punished and reality cannot be escaped
Th picture represents the immorality and bad conscience of Victorian middle class
Dorian's pure appearance is symbol of borgeois hypocrisy
19th Century version of the myth of Faust, a man who sells his soul to the devil
art is eternal
Main characters
Dorian Gray (the protagonist)
A handsome young man who uses his beauty to achieve what he wants
Basil Hallward (the painter)
He is the one who creates the portrait
Will be eventually killed by Dorian because he witnessed what was happening to the painting
Dorian blames him for what happened to his life
the Aesthetic Movement was developed in the last decade of 19th century
Universities
Intellectual circles
began in France
Théophile Gautier
"Art for Art's Sake"
English Aesthetic Movement
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood
Semplicity of the medieval italian art, with naturalistic accuracy of details
Great variety of media
Ophelia, Millais
Ophelia from Hamlet by Shakespeare
The painter wanted to reproduce nature in all its details
Model= Elizabeth Siddal, poet and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife. She died young because she took a dose of laudanum, a tincture of opium.
Oil on canvas. Millais painted on a dry white ground which made colors brighter
The painter painted open air. He spent 4 months outdoors.
symbols
The willow tree
Forsaken love
Poppies
Death
Nettle
Pain
Daisies
Innocence
Pansies
Love in vain
Walter Pater
"To live life as a work of art"
Features
Evocative use of the language of the senses
Excessive attention of the self
Hedonistic attitude
Perversity in subject matter
Disenchantment with contemporary society
Absence of any didactic aim
Curiosity
The painter, Aubrey Beardsley, made the front cover of
Salomè
for him
Oscar Wilde
Famiglia di Oscar Wilde
Alfred Douglas
Ex compagnio
Constance Lloyd
Moglie
Cyril Holland
Figlio
Vyvyan Holland
Figlio
Merlin Holland
Nipote
Jane Francesca Elgee
Poetessa
William Wilde
Padre
Isola Wilde
Sorella
Willie Wilde
Fratello
Natalie Clifford Barney
Lucian Holland
Pronipote
Dorothy Wilde
Nipote
Ven. John Elgee
Henry Wilson
Fratello
Emily Wilde
Sorella
Mary Wilde
Sorella
Thomas Wills Wilde
Nonno
Sarah Elgee
Nonna
Charles Elgee
Nonno
Amelia Wilde
Nonna
Jane Waddy
Salomé, Aubrey Beardsley
Beardsley painted with black ink.
