Sentences with word «aestheticism»

Aestheticism is a term used to describe a focus on beauty and the appreciation of art for its own sake. It values the aesthetic qualities and experience of art rather than any deeper meaning or moral message it may convey. Full definition
The depth of aestheticism in his paintings is unequaled.
He could say things that the choirmasters might not like, or that had just never occurred to them, because they were so caught up in aestheticism that they lacked critical distance.
This regal accommodation option combines African aestheticism with panoramic ocean views, lush tropical gardens, thriving jungles and Costa Rica's magnificent ocean.
But when history is understood (after Hegel's fashion) as the self - revelation of God, the result is a kind of aestheticism which in benign comprehension largely disregards the contours of history — nations, races, people, even the sufferings of individuals.
And again: «It was not that Sontag was ever prepared to abandon her stand on aestheticism.
He ventures into aestheticism because of its ambivalence and the possibility of hiding horror within false appearances.
Based on the wallpaper of a luxury hotel that Tuymans also visited on his Edinburgh trip, their serene, if stifling aestheticism seems to suggest how the perils of isolationism and class indifference may stall the radical ideas of forward - looking members of society.
However, when we speak about aestheticism today, we could not name any particular name from the world of contemporary art, because artists usually tend to distance themselves from this movement.
No doubt Rainey regards the publication of his book in this series as a gesture subversive of an outmoded aestheticism.
Christianity, as the intellectualist elaboration about Christ's meaning provided by Paul and John, was a brilliant recipe of given ingredients: a mystic doctrine of personal survival was combined with Stoic earthly disdain and Epicurean aestheticism wrapped up in hope for ultimate justice from a newly close God, Whose long view of the Big Picture would someday be revealed to the most lowly confused slave.
He has been accused of a general aestheticism which fails to take seriously the tragic conflict between good and evil, though his own motives are quite different.
And, coming so soon after the completion of the church model, Merrick's death is complicated by its very aestheticism, its poetry of religion in the achievement of immortal form: for now he is «straight.»
The film is demanding, intellectually voracious, and reminiscent of Last Year at Marienbad in its brittle aestheticism.
Refn's relentless aestheticism isn't that original either: the glittery pollen clouds, a montage of neon triangles, blue and deep pink washes, and the stabs of synth on the soundtrack are so late - prog rock.
Update: Having caught the world premiere screening, we can confirm Pesce's skill - set — we thought it was a stellar genre exercise pimped out in candy colored aestheticism and fun dynamic between the co-leads.
Les garçons sauvages is Mandico's feature debut and a rich, lavish black - and - white patchwork of influences and disorienting aestheticism.
One of the major recent exhibitions celebrating aestheticism was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2011.
Liberty Art Fabrics & Fashion charts Liberty's history as a source for key trends in cultural history, including Aestheticism, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Pop and Psychedelia.
At auction for the first time in 100 years, Golden Hours, 1864, by Frederic, Lord Leighton, a pivotal masterpiece of British Aestheticism, achieved a new world auction record for the artist, selling for # 3,274,500 / $ 4,384,556 / $ 3,945,773.
The bulky weight of the Pirelli building's floors bear down with the dark mass of a policeman's boot heel — though that sense of pressure can feel perversely liberating, a severe aestheticism not far removed from the tactile violence of S&M.
From tongue - in - cheek wordplay to unabashed political criticism and powerful social commentary, our five featured artists intertwine written word and aestheticism for maximum -LSB-...]
We've mostly rejected modernist aestheticism, art for art's sake, but we've replaced it with what I sometimes call avant - garde transgressivism, transgression for transgression's sake, critique for critique's sake, change for change's sake.
Tokyo signing Thumbelina during the group show Aestheticism, Beautiful Bizarre magazine at Vanilla Gallery Tokyo, Japan 9th of April
In her own words, it attempts to «suspend the passive aestheticism that turns abject poverty into an object of enjoyment».
Jörg Heiser, who has compared Schutz to Austrian painter Maria Lassnig, describes the work in his 2008 book All of a Sudden: «Her canvases are «too big,» the way showy gold chains are too big, but also skeptical and at times bad - tempered, the way intelligent teenagers are in their loathing of the bland aestheticism and brash sexuality of pop - modernity».
Upon returning to Europe in the mid-1960s, he began his artistic career exploring aestheticism, everyday objects, and media inspired by digital animations.
Things go Dark presents a visual exploration of the principles of aestheticism through the work of nine contemporary Irish artists.
Leighton, along with the lesser known classicist Albert Moore (1841 - 93), also exemplified the creative philosophy of the 19th century Aestheticism movement.
I will, though, take Kertess's hipster aestheticism in 1995 over the emphasis on «the geopolitical, the psychosocial, and the body's politic» of the 1993 Biennial.
They provide a platform for the celebration of a live experiential space whose focus lies in evolving a social relationship between the audience and performers, while maintaining a sense of visual aestheticism and spectacle.
See below for more details or follow this link... All Too Familiar explores the line between aestheticism and functionality.
His figures are portrayed in a landscape in which an American Comic - Aestheticism meets the Social Realism of communism.
Evoking the energy of «80s painting, these works draw upon the allure of emotional aestheticism, while remaining open to the viewers» creative communion.
The luscious pigment celebrates its own occasions, but a sensual aestheticism is not invoked for its own sake alone; in fact it only forms the threshold of a further journey, an undertaking whose successful realization has nothing to do with the seductive appeals of medium.
Like the scan collages that attracted so much attention in the art world, the canvas works featured in Hong Hao's Hong Kong solo exhibition bring us thoughts about purer aestheticism.
As a result, narrative subjects gave way to cosmopolitan design elements and an emphasis on aestheticism.
«Their serene, if stifling aestheticism», says the press release, «seems to suggest how the perils of isolationism and class indifference may stall the radical ideas of forward - looking members of society».
To detach the life of the mind from the duties of the citizen was to run the danger of aestheticism, examples of which disease, from Oscar Wilde to Ronald Firbank, were frequently paraded before us as evident causes of the weakness that had all but cost us the two world wars.
Because the indulgence of its aestheticism is in fact against the law, NAMBLA leads a shadowy existence and its membership tends to be secretive, although every once in a while it breaks into public view, causing consternation in the «mainline» gay movement that is bent upon assuring Americans that it wants nothing but tolerance while it is conducting a revolution that will change everything and everyone.
Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme through the work of all six of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs» of English Catholicism such as «aestheticism, a love of ritual, ceremony, tradition, the appeal of authority, a romantic triumphalism, the lure of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»
The task of philosophical hermeneutics was simple: to clear the mind of intellectual barriers to that light, constituted by habitual modern concerns like historical difference, aestheticism, the perfectibility of procedures.
While they don't match the aestheticism of the other baskets, they are still very attractive.
The things that nature regulates for us, the water that it filters, the natural pesticides that it produces, not to mention the beauty and aestheticism that make life worth living.
Bulky or messy outfits don't match the aestheticism that minimalist looks bring to the table.
For all the film's aestheticism, there's a clarity to this child's dilemma — conveyed ably by Hightower, who is a unique kind of actress.
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