For this reason they kept away from the masses and lived a life of refined sensations professing the cult of beauty and transforming their life into a work of art, surpassing moral laws in the search for pleasures and vices, often through the use of drugs and alcohol. The fundamental principle of Aestheticism was “Art for Art’s sake: they believed that art shouldn’t have any didactic or moral aim.Īesthetic artists hated the hypocrisy and the increasing uniformity of the industrial society because they couldn’t stand the vulgarity of mass production. Oscar Wilde and Gabriele D’Annunzio were two famous poets and writers who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century, respectively in England and Italy.īoth of them represented the leading exponents of the artistic and literary movement of Aestheticism, a product of late Romanticism with a tendency to Decadentism.
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