Aestheticism (or the Aesthetic Movement) is an art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than socio-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.
Aestheticism
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Aestheticism
English artistic movement of the late 19th century, dedicated to the doctrine of 'art for art's sake' - that is, art as a self-sufficient entity concerned solely with beauty and not with any moral or social purpose.
aestheticism or æstheticism - The belief that the pursuit of beauty is the most important goal, and that it is the artist's duty to orchestrate selected elements from nature into a composition that, like music, exists for its own sake, ...
Both Caravaggio and Annibale were perceived in the seventeenth century as exponents of a North Italian or "Lombard" tradition of naturalism that was opposed to the excessive aestheticism of Mannerist practice then prevalent in Rome, ...
Italian influence was largely rejected in favor of Mannerist formulas and a severe and noble style which used chiaroscuro not for the sake of a theatrical aestheticism, but to create a more urgent sense of drama.
I say to all: reject love, reject aestheticism, reject the trunks of wisdom, for in the new culture your wisdom is laughable and insignificant. I have untied the knot of wisdom and set free the consciousness of colour! ...
In England the style's immediate precursors were the Aestheticism of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, who depended heavily on the expressive quality of organic line, and the Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris, ...
Symbolism had a significant influence on many subsequent art movements including Modernism, Aestheticism, Expressionism and Surrealism.
The closest to Symbolism was Aestheticism. The Pre-Raphaelites, also, were contemporaries of the earlier Symbolists, and have much in common with them.
Refers primarily to Art Nouveau and aestheticism of the 1890's, sometimes termed "decadent art." Used to refer to a 'style' or 'movement' associated with the end of the 19th century.
During the twentieth century, this referred to the art of the 1890s -- especially the art of aestheticism and Art Nouveau, which is sometimes known as "decadent art." An artist who epitomises this period is Aubrey Beardsley (English, 1872-1898).
French term meaning “end of the century' used during the twentieth century to describe the art of the 1890’s, most notably Art Nouveau and Aestheticism.
With planes and shapes flattened, and color muted, Whistler's portrait demonstrates his devotion to aestheticism and art for art's sake.
Minimalism questioned the nature of art and its place in society. Although some deemed Minimalist art to be unapproachable and barren, others saw the revolutionary concept of pure aestheticism and the strong affect that Minimalist theory had on ...
Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) who excelled in silverpoint and watercolour; and Theodore Robinson (1852-96), a close friend of Claude Monet. Note also Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) the interior and landscape painter, and follower of Aestheticism.
the same subject nineteen years ago, The Basket of Bread. By making a very careful comparison of the two pictures, everyone can study all the history of painting right there, from the linear charm of primitivism to stereoscopic hyper-aestheticism." ...
 See also: Aesthetic, Painting, Movement, Expression, Roman
  
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