Aestheticism is a movement.
 Like contemporary art, Shindler writes that aestheticism was born of "the conundrum of constituting ones life in relation to an exterior work" and that it "attempted to overcome" this problem "by subsuming artists within their work in the hope of yieldingmore than mere objectslives which could be living artworks
== 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

