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THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT - Coggle Diagram
THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT
Started in France
Popular in Britain in 1890's
Started as reaction to traditional moral and material success
Writers followed idea (Gaultier)
ART FOR ART SAKE
Art without moral or social reasons
Art should be beautiful
rejection of traditional values
aesthetes had unconventional lives
Aesthetic ideas connected to:
EDONISM: pleasure as the most important thing in life
DECADENCE: associated with Moral Decay/ rejection traditional values
In the UK: Wilde was a famous aesthete
Decadent writers inspired by French poets: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine
OSCAR WILDE
he followed WALTER PAPER (father of aesthetism)
He was a DANDY
was born in Dublin in 1854
Known for his style, elegance
he was famous in London
his life ended in tragedy: imprisoned for homosexuality
died Alone in Paris in 1900