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Presentation of Aestheticsm and Decadence
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Aestheticism and Decadence
Pietro Bianchedi, Giorgia Brunelli, Filippo Stevan
e Nicola Flora
The birth of the Aesthetic Movement
The birth of the Aesthetic Movement
- The Aesthetic Movement began in France with Théophile Gautier
- Reflected the reaction against the materialism
- 'Art for Art's Sake'
- Excess, cultivating art and beauty
- Walter Pater is the main theorist of this movement in this country
The Theorist of English Aestheticism
The theorist of English Aestheticism
- Walter Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance and Marius the Epicurean were immediatly succesfull especially with the young.
- Because the subversive and potentially demoralising message.
- He rejected religious faith and said that art was the only means to halt the passage of time, the only certainity
- for Pater, art as a representation of itself, had no reference to life and it had nothing to do with morality and did not need to be didatic.
Walter Pater's influence
Pater' works had a deep influence on the poets and writers of the 1890s
Walter Pater's influence
His periodical (The Yellow Book) reflected 'decadent' taste in its sensational subject
Decadent is a term that generally implied a process of decline of recognised values
The features of Aesthetic Works
A number of features can be distinguished in the works of Aesthetic artist
The features of Aesthetic works
- excessive attention to the self
- hedonistic and sensuous attitude
- perversity in subject matter
- disenchantment with contemporary society
- evocative use of language
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was the most important author of decadentism. He was an English writer who during his lifetime was influenced by Walter Pater. His most famous work of decadentism is "the picture of Dorian Gray" because in this novel we have a beautiful young boy who will put his beauty in front of everything and everyone, so he will make a deal with the devil to stay young and beautiful forever.