aestheticism Flashcards
(15 cards)
when?
half of 19th
Why it opposed the victorian age?
because the victorian age
-has strict moral values
-consider art didattic
-wants art to be useful and teach values
what’s the purpouse of art?
Is to pursuit beauty (the most important thing in life)
to elevate the taste
to give pleasure
it has no material utility (art for art’s sake)
whats the role pf an artist?
An artist has to try every experience in order to describe their sensation in their work.
Also they have to show their subjective vision of the word (impressionism).
To detach from society
Who was the theoriat of aestheticism?
Walter Pater, he was against religious faith, he thought that life should be lived like a work of art experiencing everything
Describe the dandy.
Dandy is a figure developed during aestheticism, he was a very rich man (inerithed) who spended them all carelessly (gambling), was very eccentric and extemly carefull about their appearence which had to be different from others
Which are the similarities between a dandy and a bohem?
Bith dandy and bohem lived out of the social constraint, were against the bourgois and went to the same cafè, but the bohem didnt have the goal to be admired by others and also they decided to live without a lot of money
Who is oscar wilde?
He is a famous writer born in dublin in middle 19th, he married and had 2 child but then declared to be homosexual and was sent to prison, he then died in Paris in poverty
Who inspired oscar wild?
walter pater
the most famous work of oscar wilde?
the portait of dorian gray
plot of the picture of dorian gray
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why is he called dorian gray?
cos gray rapresent his moral which wasnt whithe (good) neither black (bad)
Lord henry
amoral easthete
basil?
good artist, rapresent the victorian values
what oscar wilde say about the pictuore of dorian gray?
Basil is what i think i am, Lord Henry is what people think of me, Dorian Gray is what i would like to be
