Aestheticism Maniac In The End Of The Century

Oscar Wilde is one of the most famous aestheticism writer in Britain. During the 1880's and 1890's ,he progressively formed and established his unique idea of aestheticism by gathering theories of other famous experts and comprehensive study of predecessors' thought achievements. Besides ,he practiced what he advocated to make his daily life a experimental land for aestheticism. For example ,by trying to realize all the beyond moral Utopia-style idea of aestheticism, sometimes, Oscar Wilde would take some aesthetical action, such as wearing exotic costume sunflower or lily. With his stand of art self-defence, Wilde discovered difficult position of life and solved life problems in an artistic thinking pattern , with which he saved reality , promoted life and provided people in a lopsided partial world a mental state of surmounting perplexity to enclose a land belonging to heart, avoiding it to be polluted by the commercial world. He emphasized the difference between art and life , art value and other value , as a result, he took art to a high independent position , and with verification of rich art practice , he showed the persistent pursuit to art's own value of aesthete. But during a rather long time after his death, actually his such great achievement wasn't paid appropriate attention. His theory of aestheticism may be not comprehensive ,and one hundred years later, it is a great challenge for us to set a fair and scientific value to his theory . Basing on traditional research on Wilde's case, this paper puts it into the stage of aesthetic "group" ,and takes up the relations between Wilde and Pre-Raphaelitism ,Walter Pater ,Charles Baudelaive . By comparative research it emphasizes his vital role in aestheticism theory and approaches his pioneering quality to aestheticism in particular.