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Exhibition
Without Design or Sketch: The Story of The Room
10 Sep 2016 – 1 Oct 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
FREE RSVP Required to: rsvp@launchla.org
Address
- 170 s. la brea avenue
- Los Angeles
California - 90036
- United States
In rebellion against the function of art to serve a moral and social purpose in the Victorian period, the Aesthetic movement of late 19th century Britain championed the importance of art divorced from any ulterior motive than its visual beauty.
About
An expression coined by artist James Abbot McNeill Whistler, “art for art’s sake” encompassed the belief that the creation and interpretation of art was the responsibility of the artist, not society, and should be morally disengaged from the outside world. In his book Ten O’Clock Lecture, Whistler states, “Nature is very rarely right…”, explaining that it is the artist’s own vision that must improve upon nature. Championing luxury, exoticism, and sensual experience, Aestheticism formed the foundations of early Modern Art with such movements as Art Nouveau, and deeply impacted the fine and applied arts.
