Sentences with word «aesthete»
An aesthete is someone who deeply appreciates and values beauty and art in all forms. They have a keen sense of aesthetics and are passionate about experiencing and creating things that are visually pleasing and harmonious. Full definition
fiery and forthright, he is a renowned art collector and one of the great aesthetes of the age.
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Head from there to Coming Soon, another favorite haunt of aesthetes in the know, to pick up tableware by the likes of Anna Karlin, Mosser Glass, and Concrete Cat.
Cf. Theodore A. Gill, «Bonhoeffer as Aesthete» (unpublished paper).
Of course, we didn't really care, and it doesn't really matter, and it's not hard to make the most of what you've got, though for aesthetes like me (and probably you!)
This fiercely independent artist belongs in a long line of American aesthetes who embraced an unadorned style, including figures as various as Ernest Hemingway, Barnett Newman, Virgil Thomson, and Walker Evans.
The new BMW 6 Series Convertible fulfils the wishes of discerning automotive aesthetes with its finely honed sense for sporty driving pleasure, groundbreaking luxury and sparkling looks.
The joke is a popularization of a classic quote: Lord Chesterfield, the 18th century aesthete, received a letter from his son, deploring the conditions of the farm workers on his estates.
McCarthy's male peers regarded her as politically unserious, a mere aesthete, and that seems partly true of her fictional counterpart.
Though bringing in a bona fide action - cheese aesthete like David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, John Wick) to direct counts as a minor coup, Deadpool 2's attempts to fight superhero fatigue with self - awareness and meta shock value can become exhausting.
In 1951, with Mr. Greenberg's prompting, she joined the new Tibor de Nagy gallery, run by the ebullient aesthete John B. Myers, and had her first solo show there that year.
In 1951, with Mr. Greenberg's prompting, she jointed the new Tibor de Nagy gallery, run by the ebullient aesthete John B. Myers, and had her first solo show there that year.
All this, as well as his extraordinary eye as a collector of Indian art, undoubtedly ensures Hodgkin's place as one of the great aesthetes of the age.
Clarke's selection of works in A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense represents the wide ranging influences and eclectic taste of a highly sophisticated aesthete.
Leo Castelli the cosmopolitan aesthete chose the artists (sometimes with a little help from friends).
Rather, Miller's problem, or non-problem, would better be described as that of a «rootless cosmopolitan intellectual aesthete.»
Here's how Slavitt, who describes himself as «a skeptical Jewish aesthete of the late twentieth century,» translates the same passage from the «Hymn After Meat»:
Updike has little patience with the romantic ideal of the artist as alienated aesthete.
But Whitehead is not talking about God as an amoral aesthete.
The postmodern aesthete, that homo erectus appetitus, this featherless biped possessed of desires and wants, who makes contracts of convenience and who is vacant of love but vibrant with lust — this is very much the man of the hour.
Why, Malcolm asked Connolly, had their mutual friend Orwell become such a passionate and sincere, even puritanical, moralist, when so many of his contemporaries at school had become aesthetes, homosexuals, Communists, or all three at once?
He would have to be so monstrously self - absorbed: not a brilliant conversationalist, not a philosopher and wit, not a bon - vivant or perverted aesthete, but just some tedious little troll, full of spite and resentment.
Gone are the days when liturgical concern could be dismissed as the hobby of a few aesthetes.
Madridstas do love winning yet more than anything they love winning in style, like a team of aristocratic aesthetes befitting of the club's royal title and their self - projected regal disposition.
But the idea of John Spencer: Secret Fashion Aesthete is intriguing.
With only a few lines on a single shell, it is impossible to say how unusual the Trinil aesthete was at the time.
Just to be clear: I'm not an art - for - art's - sake aesthete; I've played on Team Horace since a seventh - grade production of «El Mago de Oz» brought down the «English Only» signs in my middle school cafeteria.
In recent years, the nonsense term elevated has been attached, sometimes, to genre fare that is reputed to offer aesthetes a richer, more reputable experience than they might expect.
Filth too often comes off like a strained attempt at reversing the dynamic of a Marx Brothers movie, with Whitehouse the silly, charming agitator and Greene the insufferable aesthete foil with steam blowing out of his ears.
Jean - Baptiste doesn't classify any particular scent as «good» or «bad»; he's a budding aesthete, unleashed in a gallery of smells.
Zed thinks he's headed to heaven or Valhalla but ends up in a decadent, decaying society of bored, senile, impotent aesthetes, and he's kept around as a kind of pet.
The Oscar - nominated filmmaker is a beloved cinematic aesthete, and a regular presence on the scene whenever he's promoting a film.
It also gives Ralph Fiennes a rare comic role as Monsieur Gustave, a concierge who wavers brilliantly between thug and gentleman aesthete.
Oliver Tate, the teenage protagonist of Joe Dunthorne's first novel, Submarine, brought to the minds of reviewers those two pimply aesthetes of the 20th century: Adrian Mole and Holden Caulfield.
Transfer student Lilly (Analeigh Tipton), our initial audience surrogate, is immediately befriended by aforementioned soap - aesthete Violet (Greta Gerwig) and prim subordinates Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Heather (Carrie MacLemore).
Closer to The Piano Teacher than The Red Shoes, it's a half - exhilarating, half - forehead - smacking fairy tale about cruel aesthetes and the disintegrating / exultant pull of darkness, opening in the realm of dream and proceeding through a gleeful maelstrom of mirror shots, pirouetting camerawork, and corporeal punishment (toes, tendons, and cuticles get plenty of extreme close - up attention).
He is the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, an omnivorous aesthete who appreciates both sexes, a splash of cologne, and fillip of poetry for every occasion.
Together this American girl from the Deep South and the Iranian aesthete form a tender bond that awakens them both to the possibility of joy in a world full of tragedy.
Hugo Black, a rebellious bourgeois aesthete and son of a prominent engineer, enlists into the 339th of Detroit thinking he is on his way to France.
Bunker writes: «Motherwell has a reputation for being the clever aesthete who was always too enamoured of the «Old World» of Mediterranean sunshine, azure skies, Gauloises packets — and always with an eye for rare book wrappers too.
And in general the new New Man is able to show European aesthetes a thing or two about how to talk about the Old Masters, and incidentally how to look at his own work, which so many of his contemporaries found intractable.
This is not to suggest that Singh — who died tragically young in 1998, and is surely India's greatest photographer — was a precious or narrow aesthete.
Like Alfred Stieglitz, Betty Parsons, Richard Bellamy and other earlier New York dealers, Hudson was part aesthete, part pedagogue, part artist and part nurturer of artists.
If one were to measure the success of a show by the line of desperate aesthetes (or at least Instagram junkies) that develops outside, New York has seen a few blockbusters in recent years: Christian Marclay's The Clock at Paula Cooper, Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms at Zwirner, and, the grandmommy of them all, Marina Abramovic's stare - off at her MoMA retrospective.
Works by Paul Klee, Georges Braque, and Mark Rothko proved especially influential on the young aesthete, and helped form her thinking.