A rasika is a term for an aesthete of Indian classical music. It featured the character of an aesthete, des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism. Clara Schumann had long been the more conservative aesthete in the Schumann marriage. He was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was counted as an Aesthete. A fundamental characteristic of the aesthete is "immediacy". The aesthete doesn't see it that way. Gerald was an aesthete from his childhood.