Henriette Lorimier, Female Nude (1796). Black chalk, charcoal, and white crayon in the Horvitz Collection (Wikimedia Commons), exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (2024-2025). Though George Moore never wrote about Lorimier, her drawing anticipates the art of Impressionists he knew and admired, especially Degas and Renoir, and echoes his beloved Ingres.
Welcome to Aesthetics, the nonfiction writings of George Moore about the arts as he saw and heard them. The writings are divided into two sections by subject matter.
The section named Art Criticism includes his essays on the visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture, art museums, art education, art history, and the art market.
The section named Literary Criticism includes his essays on everything except the visual arts: primarily fiction, poetry, plays, and movements.
Most of the essays were originally published in periodicals; a few in books. They represent George Moore’s wide-ranging and self-expressive philosophy of art.
A campaign has been launched to collect 88 essays that have never been digitized and are not published here. They will be scanned from print copies in the physical stacks of the British Library in London.
Please email GMi f you know about art or literary criticism by George Moore that has been overlooked in Aesthetics or Bibliography.
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