... other than for pleasure, but Wilde worked to disprove this idea. Through the three main characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde expressed his views on art in very different ways. Basil Hallward, an artist, supported the aestheticism movement while talking of his painting of ... Dorian Gray. Hallward's portrait of Gray was remarkable in the sense that it was beautiful, but it also revealed a little about the painter because of all the ... Wilde's life, people often blamed art for the affect it had on them. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Gray blamed a book that Wotton had given h...

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