The Aesthete

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The Aesthete Wilde as AestheteMany of these
images are taken from Merlin Hollands The Wilde
Album
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Characteristics of Aestheticism          Belief
in Art for Arts Sake          Appreciation of
Beauty at the expense of utility and social
value          Pursuit of Pleasure Worship of
the Senses (The New Hedonism)          High
Culture Upper Class aesthetic,
anti-philistine          Reaction against
Realism, Didacticism, and Morality that
characterised earlier and even concurrent
cultural fashions          Anti-Natural belief
in the ornate, extreme artifice, performance, and
exotic          Symbols the peacock feather
(exotic), the butterfly (beautiful and
transient), the sunflower/orchid (beautiful,
exotic), masks (artifice, theatricality,
disguise)          In a nutshell, Walter Pater
to burn always like a hard gemlike flame    
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The Aesthete,Punch, 1880s
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A Tea Pot Aesthete
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Various Wilde types, Punch
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Edward Linley Sambourne,Wilde as
Sunflower, Punch
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Manson The Wilde Aesthetic