1.1a western European bourgeois literary school that originated in Britain at the end of the 9th century. Oscar Wilde, leader. Aestheticism writers are young people with ambition and little perseverance, which determines their cynical attitude towards reality. On the one hand, they are cynical, on the other hand, they go with the flow. The only way to solve this contradiction is to escape to the art field. In order to flaunt that they don't associate with ugly reality, they put forward the slogan of "art for art's sake", claiming that real art conflicts with the bourgeois life system and is opposite to the bourgeois hypocritical morality. Therefore, art should not reflect life, regardless of morality and art, what remains is the formation of feelings and impressions.

But in practice, their creation can't completely avoid reality, and the result still reflects their own life and morality. Their works take love and joy as the basic theme, take privileged people who spend their leisure time as the protagonist, pay attention to rhetoric and rhythm, and attach importance to still life description, thus creating auditory and visual beauty. The most representative is the portrait in Oscar Wilde's novel Dorian gray.

Aestheticism:

1.Literary schools in Japan in the early 20th century. The main writers are Yoshii Yong, Akira Kitahara, Gai Na, Junichiro Tanizaki and later Yasunari Kawabata. Influenced by various decadent western ideas, they not only hate the vulgarity and ugliness of society and the indifference of human feelings, but also express dissatisfaction with naturalism's truthful and rigid portrayal of the ugliness of reality. However, they did not overcome the defects of naturalism in a positive sense, but led literature to aestheticism and art supremacy, and regarded art as a refuge from reality. This genre is a literary reflection of the spiritual crisis in modern Japanese society.

Their works often start from personal interests, indulge in romantic life, pursue morbid sensuality and decadent beauty of art, and hold a game attitude towards life. The tone of the work is gloomy, the feelings are indulgent and the words are gorgeous. Gai Na's Song of Chuanshen, Tian Min's Vortex and Junichiro Tanizaki's Tattoo are all original works of this genre.