ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -These new Aesthetic artists included romantic bohemians such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones; maverick figures such as James McNeill Whistler, then fresh from Paris and full of ‘dangerous’ French ideas about modern painting; avant-garde architects and designers such as E.W.

Detailed explanation-2: -The father of the Aesthetic movement is considered Walter Pater. He was a philosopher and an intellectual, but he wrote an important novel, that is considered the first aesthetic novel. In fact this novel is also a kind of manifesto of the movement, in which are listed the principles of the movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aesthetic movement denounced the sober morality and middle-class values that characterized the Victorian Age and embraced beauty as the chief pursuit of both art and life. The movement is often considered to have ended with Oscar Wilde’s trials, which began in 1895.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Aesthetic Movement in fin-de-siècle England, as interpreted by Oscar Wilde, revolved around the ideal that the utility of one’s actions should be to create the maximal amount of beauty and pleasure in one’s life, and nothing more.