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    The aesthetic movement began in the late 19th century as a rejection of bourgeois materialism by French writer Theophile Gautier. It sought to research beauty and escape reality through art, with the motto "Art for Art's sake". This doctrine spread to England through James Whistler and was developed by theorists like Walter Pater, who believed life should be lived intensely through art without didacticism. Pater greatly influenced later authors like Oscar Wilde. The decadent movement emerged as a reaction to declining bourgeois values, with artists like Baudelaire creating artificial worlds using evocative language to express their disillusionment.

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    The aesthetic movement began in the late 19th century as a rejection of bourgeois materialism by French writer Theophile Gautier. It sought to research beauty and escape reality through art, with the motto "Art for Art's sake". This doctrine spread to England through James Whistler and was developed by theorists like Walter Pater, who believed life should be lived intensely through art without didacticism. Pater greatly influenced later authors like Oscar Wilde. The decadent movement emerged as a reaction to declining bourgeois values, with artists like Baudelaire creating artificial worlds using evocative language to express their disillusionment.

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    The aesthetic movement began in the late 19th century as a rejection of bourgeois materialism by French writer Theophile Gautier. It sought to research beauty and escape reality through art, with the motto "Art for Art's sake". This doctrine spread to England through James Whistler and was developed by theorists like Walter Pater, who believed life should be lived intensely through art without didacticism. Pater greatly influenced later authors like Oscar Wilde. The decadent movement emerged as a reaction to declining bourgeois values, with artists like Baudelaire creating artificial worlds using evocative language to express their disillusionment.

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    AESTHETICISM AND DECADENCE

     THE DAWN OF ASTHETICISM*


    The aesthetic movement began developing during the last decades of the 19th
    century within universities and intellectual circles. The initiator of the movement
    was Theophile Gautier, a French writer who expressed frustration and disapproval
    towards the bourgeoisie's materialistic lifestyle, as a matter of fact in his works is
    manifested the need to redefine the artist and art's role in this uncaring society.
     
     THE CHARACTERISTICS
    Aestheticism's authors' aim was not to educate the reader nor to spread
    awareness, but to unconditionally research beauty and excess, by escaping from
    reality into aesthetic isolation: through their works, writers would evade to an
    imaginary world, ruled by art and elegance, to live intense experiences, which
    were well-distant from reality's monotony. Aesteticism's manifesto was "Art for
    Art's sake".
     
     THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND
    This doctrine was diffused in England by the American painter James Whistler,
    however the main English theorists were intellectuals such as John Keats, Gabriel
    Rossetti, and the most relevant one, Walter Pater. Indeed, Pater's masterpieces,
    such as Marius the Epicurean (1873), laid the groundwork for English
    Aestheticism. In his works, he rejected religious faith and believed that life ought
    to be lived in the spirit of art, fulfilling every passing moment with intense and
    attractive sensation, without implicating the use of art with didactic purposes.
    Moreover, Walter Paters exerted a deep influence on later authors, particularly
    on Oscar Wild, who was a student of his. Essential has been his contribution to
    The Yellow Book.
     
     THE DECADENT MOVEMENT
    The Decadent Movement starts as a reaction to a process of decline of recognized
    values in the bourgeoisie society, the artists express their disenchantment and
    create a completely artificial world, describing it with the use of evocative
    language, full of symbols.
    It begins in France with the masterpiece Le Fleurs du mal of the writer Charles
    Baudelaire, who soon inspires a whole new generation of authors. Between the
    most influential exponents we can find:
     
     Huysmans, whose hero from A rebours  Mallarmè
    inspires Oscar Wilde's dandy  D'Annunzio
     Rimbaud
     Verlaine
    *All the information present il the document has been extracted from the book Performer Heritage
     
     

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