Wilde, Oscar - The picture of Dorian Grey (2)

Oscar Wilde

“The picture of Dorian Gray” The preface

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things” as “Ode on a Grecian Urn” makes

something eternal, what is beautiful is eternal. “To reveal art and conceal the artist is

art’s aim” reveal art itself, this give us an idea of the artist but we don’t know him,

from this line we can know only art. We are simply looking at something that is

eternal, what is eternal is beautiful. “Translate into another manner or a new material

his impression of beautiful things” from the work of art talk about another matter. This

perfection stress a sort of spirituality. Oscar Wilde suggested that art is for art’s sake.

“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a made of autobiography” personal

interpretation of the result on autobiography an eternal work of art from his own point

of view.

Content words: noun, adjective, verbs that say an action, are useful to understand

the meaning. He does not respect what the work of art is. Corruption: find ugly

meanings in beautiful things. Cultivated: someone find beautiful meaning in beautiful

things.

An artist needs to freeze a moment; there is not a moral intent, they wants to describe

what is in front of them. They are unable to appreciate perfection, what is uncorrupted

by time. Critics do not see the real intention of the artist. Critics are common people

and they don’t understand what the artist wants to suggest. If you say that there’s

ugliness is your own opinion, you judge something that is forever, true poetry eternize.

Esthetic movement: art is for art seek. Eternal value of art, freezing something.

“Books well written or badly written that is all” we have not to give a judge to a book.

Books, canvas, urn are the same. Give us an image. Books teach something to us.

Beauty is the only important things.

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“The 19 century dislike of realism in the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a

glass” people dislike the real situation that they see. Realism suggested ugliness.

Caliban is a character of “The tempest” of Shakespeare, he is an inferior fellow as a

workers of the Victorian age or a savage that British consider inferior. Personal

interpretation of reality. Don’t see the own image in a glass. Caliban is an ugly fellow.

Caliban is a servant and Dorian pretended to live pleasure but he is dominated. They

are enslaved. Away from the perfection of art. Existence that can’t be change.

Perfection doesn’t exist in Caliban and Dorian. Reflection of real situation, realistic

image that Dorian see. A follower of what the esthetic philosophy is. Dorian is young

forever but this is not a real situation. “The moral life of a man forms part of the

subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an

imperfect medium”

Rules for an artist. Morality or immorality of a work of art. “Vice and virtue are to the

artist material for an art” “All art is quite useless”. It’s not practical, material

happiness. “Life is the greatest of arts” every work of art is a reproduction of reality to

make reality eternal. Life is a work of art.

Cap 20

He was forever young and beautiful. Contrast between pleasure and the illusion to

have again this. Dorian was well dressed, a dandy perfectly dressed to be suitable in

every situation. For a dandy everything has to be extremely elegant. He has two

nature because he is a dandy but he says to a girl that he is poor. She has the quality