The slogan "Art for Art's sake" was invented by the French. But the concept of "art for art's sake", in a sense, is actually a superficial and popular expression of Kant's and Schiller's aesthetics.
The profound speculation and obscure language of German classical aesthetics are difficult for even professionals to understand, and the success of "art for art's sake" lies in this. It absorbed the essence of German aesthetics, but removed its complicated details, and cast a resounding slogan in refined French, which became a striking banner of the French aestheticism movement.
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The poetry of "art for art's sake" requires neatness and perfection in form; With strict classical poetry meter, after careful polishing and carving, it shows the appearance beauty of objective things; Poets can't express their feelings in their works.
Gaudi is an advocate of "Art for Art's sake" and is recognized as the pioneer of Parnas School. Bainville, the main poet of panas School, played the central idea of "Art for Art's sake" in his On the Metre of French Poetry (1872) and leconte de Lille's speech Ode to Hugo at the French Academy (1887).
Until the 1930s, Valerie, the late symbolic poet, put forward in her speech about poetry that the purpose of poetry art lies in itself, not in any other function, so he said, "A poem has no meaning imposed on it by others."
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