Beauty for Joan Keats and Oscar Wilde

Beauty for John Keats and Oscar Wilde

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John Keats

“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.”

there are two types of beauties that are connected to each other, physical beauty and spiritual beauty

Physical beauty

NATURE

COLORS

WOMAN

Spiritual beauty

LOVE

POETRY

FRIENDSHIP

Oscar Wilde

"Beauty is a gift given to men by the Gods"

"We must take advantage of beauty while we are young"

He lived his life as a work of art, in search of pleasure.

Oscar Wilde is the most important artist of English aestheticism

Aestheticism

"life as a work of art"

The aesthetic movement began in France, it reflected the sense of frustration and uncertainty of the artists

"Art for art's sake"

Aesthetic artists lived a very unconventional life, they lived in a bohemian way as a protest against the monotony and vulgarity of bourgeois life.

Our beauty

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The picture of Dorian Gray

In the picture of Dorian Gray beauty and art have the power to penetrate the mystery of human nature

beauty is an extraordinary but transitory good

Beauty has to be lived to the fullest and so they try to live a life full of unbridled pleasures

ideas of Henry Wotton

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Distortion of the conception of beauty in art.

Beauty for Greek art

The classical Greek world inspires Keats for his works.

The model of beauty to represent the beauty of the deities was the athlete for his physical and moral virtues

For the Greeks, the beauty of bodies was given by harmony and proportion.

It's your turn!

OSCAR WILDE

john keats

beauty is an extraordinary but transitory good

classical Greek world inspires...

aesthete artist

“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”

Art for art sake

spiritual beauty

search of pleasure

beauty comes from the five senses

It's your turn!

OSCAR WILDE

john keats

beauty is an extraordinary but transitory good

spiritual beauty

“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”

aesthete artist

Art for art sake

beauty comes from the five senses

classical Greek world inspires...

search of pleasure

Thanks!

Valeria Fazzini, Martina Fioravanti, Simone Salusti