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Aestheticism
Walter Pater
He was the theorist of the Aesthetic movement in England

• He rejected religious faith
• He denied that the aim of art should be realism
• He advocated the superiority of art over life
• Art is the only means to stop time, the only certainty
• Life must imitate Art
• Life should be a work of art
• Each passing time should be filled with intense experience, feeling all kinds of sensations (the main purpose of life is pleasure)
• The task of the artist is to feel sensations, not to describe the world
• Art has no reference to life
• It has no moral or social purpose. It is self-sufficient

1891 
The Picture of Dorian Gray

• The cult of beauty
• The choice of a life beyond common reality
• Life imitates art
• Dorian experiments all kinds of experiences and sensations