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  2. Picturesque - Wikipedia

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    A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645. Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers ...

  3. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    The notion of the picturesque: the term "picturesque" means "picture-like", where the natural world is experienced as if it is divided into art-like scenes [1] Objects experienced as beautiful tend to be small, smooth, and fair in color. [3]: 17–18 In contrast, objects viewed as sublime tend to be powerful, intense and terrifying. Picturesque ...

  4. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...

  5. Aesthetic interpretation - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of art, an interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of a work of art. [a] An aesthetic interpretation expresses a particular emotional or experiential understanding most often used in reference to a poem or piece of literature, and may also apply to a work of visual art or performance. [1]

  6. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]

  7. Decadent movement - Wikipedia

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    The 1878 Pornokratès by Belgian artist Félicien Rops. The Decadent movement (from the French décadence, lit. ' decay ') was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.

  8. Polyaesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The six fields of practice and learning inspired by Herbert Marcuse's neo-Marxist ideas of production, reproduction, demonstration, reflection, consumption and reception, which Roscher and colleagues base polyaesthetic practice on, have proven to be particularly useful in the field of so-called 'music education'.

  9. Anandavardhana - Wikipedia

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    Anandavardhana authored the Dhvanyāloka, or A Light on Suggestion , a work articulating the philosophy of "aesthetic suggestion" (dhvani, vyañjanā). Ānandavardhana is credited with creating the dhvani theory. He wrote that dhvani (meaning sound, or resonance) is the "soul" or "essence" of poetry ."