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Aesthetic Movement - Coggle Diagram
Aesthetic Movement
Originated in France with Theophile Gautier but developed in England in the last decades of the 19th century
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Features OF aesthetic Movement:
The artist escapes into aesthetic isolation = “Art for Art’s Sake” cultivating art and beauty and pursuing sensation and excess
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THE PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY
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No contact with reality and nature / the artist creates an imaginary or artificial worlds where the perfection of illusion replaced imperfect reality.
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It challenged the Victorian values of strict morality, respectability and material utility
WALTER PATER (1839-1894)
- influenced authors such as Oscar Wilde
- The main theorist of Aestheticism in England
- For him ART was the only MEANS to STOP TIME
- LIFE should be lived as A WORK OF ART --> filling each passing moment with intense experience
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- Art has to express detachment from contemporary society/ employing the language of the sense