aestheticism art for arts sake… tyler and matt t
TRANSCRIPT
What is Aestheticism
Art that serves no other purpose than to be beautiful. Hence the motto of the movement: “Art for art’s sake”
It Is the idea that art, be it visual or literary is created to serve as amusement, as apposed to having some sort of function. While Aesthetics were appreciated, it was because they helped deliver a simple message.
Art before this movement almost always had a didactic or symbolic motive.
Artists prior to this movement were often considered teachers
History and contributions
19th century artists considered the fact that art doesn’t have to have utility.
For the last two decades of the 19th century these artists tried to liberate art from the burden of teaching or instruction. They supposed that art should be judged more for its beauty as opposed to its content.
A large group of supporters in this time period would be the Pre-Raphaelites
-D.G. Rossetti, John Everett Millais (1829-1896), William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Thomas Woolner, and F. G. Stephens were other founding members.
.
Rules composed by usual art schools, such as the Royal Academy of Arts, taught certain guidelines of art, most of which the P.R disregarded
-Aesthetic Pre Raphaelites such as Edward Burn Jones concentrated on erotic medievalism and functional design in the visual arts.
I care not for my Lady’s soulThough I worship before her smile;I care not where be my Lady’s goalWhen her beauty shall lose its wile.
Low sit I down at my Lady’s feetGazing through her wild eyesSmiling to think how my love will fleetWhen their starlike beauty dies.
I care not if my Lady prayTo our Father which is in HeavenBut for joy my heart’s quick pulses playFor to me her love is given.
Then who shall close my Lady’s eyesAnd who shall fold her hands?Will any hearken if she criesUp to the unknown lands.
Oscar Wilde and Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are some of the biggest names in aesthetic art:
Oscar Wilde
Rossetti was born in London on 12 May 1828 and he died on Easter Day, 9 April 1882.
He was a painter, writer and translator
Books: the blessed damozel, the house of life: a sonnet sequence, la vita nuova( predecessor to the infamous Devine Comedy)
Books: the picture of Dorian Gray ( only novel)
Other notable literature: The Importance of Being Earnest