Chrysanthemums were a popular Japanesque element in the Aesthetic Movement's design vocabulary.

WSJ: Masterpiece: Gilded Abundance, Elegantly Restrained

Masterful examples of the Aesthetic Movement's influence on American ceramics are currently on view in the Brooklyn Museum's "Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn's Faience Manufacturing Company" (through June 19).

WSJ: Masterpiece: Gilded Abundance, Elegantly Restrained

Built in 1880, it is a prime example of the American Aesthetic Movement and one of only two surviving interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany's Associated Artists cooperative. (The other is the adjacent library.) The room showcases elaborate architectural woodwork by Stanford White, an exotic painted frieze by Francis D.

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So, for instance a Whistler painting of a bridge may have the obvious keywords such as bridge and Whistler associated to it but will also widen the search net with terms such as aesthetic movement, 19th century and water.

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As the exhibition encourages viewers to explore through photographs of Alfred Stieglitz's elegant installations, the center of this movement was Stieglitz's gallery, 291, where the great impresario and photographer regularly presented the latest aesthetic challenges by the avant-garde on both sides of the Atlantic.

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