His exploratory art and design emphasizes narrative abstraction, aestheticism, and conceptualism. It consists of followers of bourgeois aestheticism. His art criticism involved an aestheticism like that of his literary criticism. Among English-speaking artists, the closest counterpart to symbolism was aestheticism. Their band concept is "the absolute youshikibi (beauty of form) sound and extremes of aestheticism". Their band concept is "the absolute "youshikibi" (beauty of form) sound and extremes of aestheticism". His poetry is seen as an example of 19th-century aestheticism. The various essays in "Either/Or" help elucidate the various forms of aestheticism and ethical existence. His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism&colon; "All men should be artists". His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. Tagore's work also shows the influence of Whistler's Aestheticism. Nordau attacks symbolists, mystics, Pre-Raphaelites, Wagnerism, Aestheticism, Decadentism. Many were associated with Symbolism, others with Aestheticism. He was aligned with Aestheticism, the British counterpart of Decadence and Symbolism. He was influenced by the Mughal school of painting as well as Whistler's Aestheticism.