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"Aestheticism Movement" refers to the introduction of principles that focused attention on art in the production of furniture, metalwork, ceramics, stained glass, textiles, wallpapers, and books. The inspiration for its acceptance was the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.Many Americans, artists and craftsmen as well as the general public, were revealed to art objects from a great variety of countries and periods. Most writers on the aestheticism Movement agree that it's rooted in the reaction to Mechanization in mid-19th century England. The aestheticism movement incorporated both tropical and historical sources of design generally, the Japanese influence became the strongest and the most popular.
The aestheticism movement in Britain was a part of a larger assessment of the Industrial Revolution, which had changed Britain and aligned political events that had created the power of the middle class. English designers and producers followed the pattern of conscious imitation that was created.Free use was also made of Japanese cloisonné wear, ivories, bronzes, lacquer and textiles. It wasn't too long before an English brand of Japonisme began to appear. English potters turned the pure European form of Japonisme into a decorative new 18th century chinoiserie. The styles became quite oriental. But it remained an expression of British culture.
At the time of the aestheticism movement,New ideas and shapes looked towards the 20th century. Many of the large firms were interested in the foreign influences. But Christopher Dresser and Edward Godwin responded to the oriental design, making it suitable for the 20th century. Godwin studied the designs of as many nations, but in these studies have become absorbed into an English style.A century ago,before the aestheticism movement,an artist and an intellectual William Morris,was searching for a new social order. He wrote, "I know by my own feelings & desires what these men want, what would have saved them from this lowest depth of savagery; Employment which would foster their self-respect and win the praise and sympathy of their fellows, and dwellings which could come to with pleasure, surroundings which would soothe and elevate them; reasonable labour, reasonable rest. There is only one thing that can give them this, and it is art".
Allure and classification were ignored for profit and quantity. The political philosophy was anti-aristocratic and the expression of that was rejection of the design by the rich poeple.There was also a religious element,which was the british values were affected with the religious beliefs.It was far from ceremonial and ocular symbols and more close to social and group ideals, it toughened the social nature of the movement. Whilst the aestheticism Movement definitely had its stylistic expressions, it was not simply an art movement but had a rather compound form of social, political and principled ideas of the British life during that time.
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