Aestheticism

Question 1

1. On which idea was aestheticism based ?

Answer 1

Art had nothing to do with morality and it didn’t have to be didactic

Question 2

2. According to aestheticism art had to deal with ?

Answer 2

with the elevation of taste and the pursuit of beauty , which was the most important element of life

art had to be admired for its sensual qualities and the sensations of pleasures it could arise

Question 3

3. Who is considered the main theorist of the Aesthetic movement? And what did he do?

Answer 3

WALTER PETER=) he rejected religious faith and said that art was the only certainty and the only thing able to stop time
-he also thought life should be lived in the spirit of art ,”a work of art” , feeling all kinds of sensations

Question 4

4. What was the artist’s task?

Answer 4

to feel sensations and to pay attention to the attractive and gracious + to express detachment to contemporary society
artist= “ was the transcriber not of the world, not of mere fact, but of his sense of it”

Question 5

5. Who was affected by Walter’s work?

Answer 5

Oscar Wilde who presented himself as an eccentric figure whose life was “ work of art”