Aesthetic sensibility refers to someone's ability to appreciate and understand the beauty or artistic qualities in things, such as artwork, nature, or design. It is about having a keen eye for what is visually pleasing or appealing.
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Inspired by the Japanese
aesthetic sensibility of wabi sabi, she finds beauty in imperfections, rustic simplicity and irregularity, and combines this with the ancient Korean technique of keum boo to create simple jewellery with delicate contrasts, tones and textures.
Nease's work lies in a no man's land between the spiritual polars of light and dark, and shares
aesthetic sensibilities with the likes of Man Ray, Roger Ballen and Ryan McGinley.
German artist Hans - Peter Feldmann collects in order to appropriate and
challenge aesthetic sensibility, Richard Hamilton's use of pre-existing photographic imagery is linked with pop's consumerist strategies, and Dieter Roth, German - Swiss conceptual artist and long time collaborator with Hamilton, alighted most particularly (nay obsessively) on the postcard format, exemplified in Postkarte.
In this exhibition, Thomas Houseago presents a body of work that not only testifies to his continuing interest in the history of sculpture, but also hints at the emergence of a
new aesthetic sensibility within his oeuvre.
He plays Monsieur Gustave, the concierge at the titular hotel, who runs his establishment with a firm hand and
strong aesthetic sensibility, and makes a habit of sleeping with his elderly lady clients (though he is gay).
Wabi sabi is a
Japanese aesthetic sensibility that values the transient and impermanent — it's an appreciation of beautiful rustic simplicity, roughness and irregularity, of delicate natural objects and subtle processes, for example a weathered wooden bowl or a pile of Autumn leaves.
TIMO WEILAND The Timo Weiland Collection reflects Timo Weiland, Alan Eckstein and Donna Kang's
personal aesthetic sensibilities and a broader desire to spur a return to the art of dressing.
After World War II, Petlin moved away from the
bold aesthetic sensibilities of the Chicago Imagists and the Monster Roster, which included an older generation of Chicago artists such as Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, towards a more surrealist approach.
The exhibition aims to reintroduce American audiences to the singular achievements of this pioneering Chinese - French artist, who melded eastern and
western aesthetic sensibilities in his paintings as a key figure within post-World War II abstraction.
Combining her
keen aesthetic sensibilities with tremendous legal and business acumen, Tam has also served as business manager for design consultancy Workreative and designer footwear label Ryan Rowe.
Saar's «exquisite collages have posed questions, challenged presumptions and have never failed to demonstrate her
unique aesthetic sensibility,» Lowery Stokes Sims, curator of New York's Museum of Arts and Design, and chairman of this year's selection panel, said in this week's announcement of Saar's medal.
A very distinct
aesthetic sensibility guided Susini to represent John as a pastoral youth living in harmony with nature, employing a softer, more feminine anatomical topography that ancient sculptors often reserved for Dionysus or Apollo.
It goes without saying that there's a lot to talk about regarding their
unlikely aesthetic sensibility (sales presentation meets Leni Riefenstahl meets Michael Bay meets Vic Berger ECUs) and their characterizations of history and reality.
This year, we were blessed early with the poster for Geostorm, whose combination of typeface and
overall aesthetic sensibility suggests the VHS case of a direct - to - video sequel to Turbulence.
The problems with this film do not lie with the digital technologies — there are plenty of lovely films shot on the RED — but in the apparent lack of any
workable aesthetic sensibility behind the camera.
That's because the rest of the world's automakers, ever slaves to
Bavarian aesthetic sensibilities (can you name an Asian or American car company that hasn't cribbed from the BMW playbook in the last thirty - five years?)
Dog beds come in a variety of color, style and fabric choices, enabling pet owners to match the bed to their décor or to reflect their
particular aesthetic sensibilities — an increasingly attractive selling point, says Spencer Williams, president of West Paw Design.
As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Tuscany is ground zero of the
European aesthetic sensibility and an essential trip for anyone concerned with art.
While the city streets inspired Winogrand, Meyerowitz, and Lyon, their
individual aesthetic sensibilities and interests led each to develop a completely unique vision and style.
So perhaps the market's change of taste here is an attempt by the most divisive spectre in the artworld to
unite aesthetic sensibilities once again.
The point is that the most
enduring aesthetic sensibilities are the universal ones, and that is what the market — as well as the rest of us — will always default to when we sense that art has become difficult, alienating, expensive or boring.
In a catalogue essay written to accompany an exhibition of paintings by Patrick Scott held in Dublin's Douglas Hyde Gallery in May 1981, the artist's old friend, art critic Dorothy Walker began by referring to his «
exquisite aesthetic sensibility.»
Piseno writes: «Ranging widely from densely textured works on canvas formed with layers of an acrylic and pumice mixture on top of silicon molds to abstract representations of the native olive and cedar trees of Lebanon, Nahas's work consistently oscillates between
many aesthetic sensibilities, ultimately driven by his almost religious passion for abstraction.»
Perpetual Climber and Compound Flat 60 deviate further from rectangularity into idiosyncratic shapes that perfectly balance the centrifugal, expansive accidents of the creative process with the centripetal, contractile shaping of the
organizing aesthetic sensibility.
Instead, the influences of landscape and figure create a gestural language that calls to mind Abstract Expressionism while infusing it with a
non-Western aesthetic sensibility.
While the exhibition's imagery focuses on the era of Davis's youth, his project is less a recreation of childhood than an exploration of the early influences that helped to shape his
adult aesthetic sensibility.
Return to Earth succeeds by showing how the artists grappled with translating their specific
aesthetic sensibilities into a medium usually associated with arts and crafts.
In his vividly colorful and intricately detailed narrative paintings, Velasquez creates imaginative fantasy scenes using a
psychedelic aesthetic sensibility, an approach that links him to a tradition that I documented in the 2010 book and San Antonio Museum of Art exhibition «Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art» since the 1960s.
«At just 28 years old, Akunliyi seems to have already fleshed out a practice that recasts a disparate array of sources and materials into a
cohesive aesthetic sensibility.»
«I thought if we could get people to come here and swim in a Dumpster, I could probably use the
same aesthetic sensibility» to get people — and, not incidentally, better retailers — to come to a dingy strip mall, Mr. Belt said.
The structure, made from found materials such as polyurethane foam, wood, glass, coral and leather,
challenges aesthetic sensibilities and may even make you wish that you had a Cliff's Notes version of The Bacchae with you for reference.
This represents a
new aesthetic sensibility, and it seems to work, as I was not the only old - school designer at the Detroit show to react positively to the LC 500.
In the wake of filmmakers as disparate as Todd Haynes and Abel Ferrara self - consciously toying with the limits of the biopic form, ostensibly killing dynamic subjects by pinning them to the wall, Saint Laurent isn't as radical a work of genre subversion as some of its adherents claim, but it sure as hell is beautiful, channelling its subject's hedonist spirit and delicate
aesthetic sensibility in roughly equal measure.
Based in and inspired by New York City, the Timo Weiland collection reflects Timo, Alan, and Donna's
personal aesthetic sensibilities and a broader desire to spur a return to the art of dressing.
She had a
keen aesthetic sensibility and connection to nostalgia, and would strive to capture the color, balance and harmony of her beloved landscapes while also communicating the energy and personal emotion she attached to it in her memory.