The Decadent Movement

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1890

  • tendency towards sexual promiscuity

  • appreciation of classical literature

  • devotion to the Catholic church

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Art

  • should celebrate beauty in a highly personal and polished style

  • not concern themselves with politics

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Influences

  • gothic novels

  • sensuality of Romanticism

  • evocative language of the pre-Raphaelites

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Promotions

  • sexual experimentation

  • value of artifice over nature

  • ennui over the value of hard work

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Romantic ideals they built on

  • drunken partying

  • drugs

    • Hashish

    • Absinthe

    • opium

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What they symbolised

  • alarmed those with traditional values

  • signified a society and culture threatened

    • represented decay and decline