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- 1890: James Whistler publishes The Gentle Art of Making Enemies（《树敌的优雅艺术》）, arguing that the value of a painting lies purely in its aesthetic effect and that the subject matter is of no importance
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
… Art … should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it and that is why I insist on calling my works “arrangements” and “harmonies.”
- 1897: the Vienna Secession (维也纳分离派) forms in Vienna, Austria; this is an association of progressive artists resisting the conservative taste of art academies