Aestheticism values ethics over cultural themes.
== Aesthetic fine art ==Artists associated with the Aesthetic style include Simeon Solomon, James McNeill Whistler, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Albert Joseph Moore, GF Watts and Aubrey Beardsley
== Aesthetic literature ==The British decadent writers were much influenced by the Oxford professor Walter Pater and his essays published during 186768, in which he stated that life had to be lived intensely, with an ideal of beauty

