Sentences with phrase «esthetic ideal»

This esthetic ideal is known as wabi - sabi and it dates back centuries, emerging as a reaction to tea ceremonies that had become ridiculously drawn out and ostentatious.

A spiritual and esthetic ideal in its origins, the sublime took on a sense of nation building in nineteenth - century America, of self - making in the time of Jackson Pollock, of ego - tripping for Matthew Barney, and now a kind of ego - undoing in the hands of an upmarket gallery and an inward - looking photographer.

Not exact matches

The ideals of creativity will be discussed in relation to esthetic standards, manners, work, and recreation.

The ideal character of the fine arts should not result in isolation from other spheres of life, but should enable them to be of greater service in lifting the esthetic level of all experience.

The most serious error in modern esthetics has been the general rejection of the ideal of purity or nobility on the ground of esthetic irrelevance.

In fact, esthetic worth tends to have an inverse relation to practicality, since forms are ideal in the degree to which they transcend the necessary limitations, confusions, and compromises of ordinary life.

Esthetic experience further reinforces democratic ideals in its emphasis on creative freedom.