Concetti Chiave
- Aestheticism is a late 19th-century literary and artistic movement originating in England.
- Oscar Wilde is a prominent figure associated with the Aestheticism movement.
- The movement's central tenet is "art for art's sake," emphasizing art's autonomy and independence from reality.
- Aesthetes reject the notion that art serves a moral purpose, valuing works solely for their beauty.
- They assert the supremacy of art, positing that life should imitate art, rather than art imitating life.
Art for art's sake
Aestheticism is a literary and artistic movement that was born in England in the last decades of 19th century. Its main representative is Oscar Wilde. The fundamental principle of this movement is that of art for art's sake, that consists in seeing art as representation of itself: it has an independent life and proceeds independently from the reality. The aesthetes deny any moral purpose of art, and they think that works of art should be judged only for their beauty.
Indeed, they claim the superiority of art, whose supreme purpose is the cult of beauty. Therefore, according to the aesthetes, it is not art to imitate life, but life to imitate art.
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