Sentences with phrase «consciously arty»

The figures are rendered in a self - consciously arty style — call it «mass - market modern» — that is a kind of Cubist faceting squashed flat.

With a rectilinear box placed within a larger rectilinear box, it's reminiscent of Josef Albers's square - within - square paintings — Rauschenberg studied with Albers at Black Mountain College — but the work comes across as self - consciously arty, or a one - liner.

Poetic Justice is much more self - indulgent and self - consciously arty and shows [Singleton's] directorial inexperience in almost every scene.

And it strikes me as a poor choice for introducing listeners to Ellington, as it belongs to the more self - consciously artier side of his work, which of course all real Ellington fans learn to appreciate, but which at times can repel initial listeners, particularly some of the pieces that veer into formlessness or pointless modern dissonances.