A group of people who had a major influence on the styles a philosophies of the Aesthetic movement
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What was the Aesthetic Movement?
It was a counter cultural movement in the Victorian art and literature between 1800-1900
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What did Oscar Wilde say about beauty?
He said, "We want to create it, not to define it"
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Who was the leader of the Aesthetic movement?
Oscar Wilde
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What is a famous novel from this movement?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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What kind of clothes did the Pre-Raphaelites wear?
They dressed like the Medival lords and ladies they wished to be like.
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Why was the year 1858 important to this movement?
It was the year Aestheticism really took of and became popular due to eastern influences like Japan.
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How did Oscar Wilde feel about geographically specific art or national art?
He said, "Art is not nation but universal".
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Who's ideas were rejected in the aesthetic movement
John Ruskin
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In this movement what did they believe art's function was?
To show beauty it served no real purpose.
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The Pre-Raphaelites greatly influenced Oscar Wilde in what way?
The way he dressed.
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What is the famous saying used to describe the Aestheic Movement?
"Art for arts sake"
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What did Oscar Wilde say what was worth doing?
He stated, "Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible".
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Who was the Oxford Professor who promoted and explained the Aesthetic movement?
Walter Pater
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How did Oscar Wilde feel about what was popular?
He said, "Whatever is popular is wrong".
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What year were the Pre-Raphaelites created?
In 1848
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When did the Aesthetic movement end?
1900 with Oscar Wilde's death.
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How did Oscar Wilde feel about beauty, was it superficial or not?
He believed that beauty was superficial that it was purely decorative and should have no spiritual message or meaning that it should be solely to astound its audience
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Who is the first person the to write about Aesthetic style
Benjamin Constant
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How many years did the Aesthetic movement last?
It lasted 40 years from 1860 to 1900
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Where was the Pre-Aesthetic movement based from?
England.
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What did the Aesthetic movement counter?
It countered the industrial revolution by bringing in beauty back into society.
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What was Oscar Wilde's take on artistic style?
he believed that there should be no style and that the best compliment would be its not painted but only a window.
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Who is widely accepted as the man who started the Aesthetic Movement?
Victor Cousin
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What book of Walter Pater's did Oscar Wilde describe as a "golden book"?
Studies in the History of the Renaissance (Landow).