Transcript Aestheticism & Romanticism

Aestheticism &
Romanticism
lena lena and tyla
Aestheticism
Aestheticism is just what the art is
by itself. It does not focus on the
meaning of the art. this movement
was a reaction to what was seen as
the ugliness and philistinism of the
industrial age.
Aestheticism
● Began around the 18th to 19th
century in europe
● “Art for art’s sake” a term used to
describe that the beauty of the art
itself is enough and does not need
to serve as a purpose or have any
type of meaning
important people during the
aesthetic movement
● oscar wilde used “art for art’s sake” in
his lectures in britain and america. also
wrote a book called dorian gray
● Dante gabriel rossetti, edward burnejones and algernon charles swinburne all
expressed aestheticism through
conscious medievalism
● James Mcneil Whistler was a painter who
Romanticism
● largest artistic movement of the late
1700s in europe
● focused on individual, intuition, and
imagination
● imagination and emotion more important
than reason and formal rules
● tends to emphasize love of nature
● concerned with human rights, freedom
Key characteristics
● Emotional Emphasis- painters and artists
would put as much emotion and passion
they could on a canvas
● nature could kill you- nature can change its
direction with no warning
origins of romanticism
● first phase of romantic movement
in germany marked by innovations
in content and literary style
● preoccupation with the mystical,
subconscious, supernatural
● Critics can not pinpoint the exact
time romanticism began
Important people during the
romanticism movement
● Edgar allen poe and walt whitman were
two important american poets who
spread romanticism across the atlantic
● many british poets also propelled the
romantic movement
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johan wolfgang von Goethe
samuel taylor coleridge
john keats
Works Cited
● http://blog.europeana.eu/2012/03/romanticism/
● http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1380618
● http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/aestheticism-anddecadence
● https://literaturesalon.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/romanticaesthetics-wordsworth-and-baudelaire/
● http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/7474/Aestheticism
● http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/508675/Romanticism
● http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-romanticism
● http://www.odessa.edu/dept/english/dsmith/rom.lit.char.pdf
● http://arthistory.about.com/od/renaissancearthistory/a/Romanticism101.htm