«The American» is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art - house thriller that's
more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one.
Together these exhibition projects consider the essential components and fundamental
dynamics of aesthetic experience: light, color, pictorial form, the context of the exhibition.
This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle of the nation becoming richer and richer while its public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation
of aesthetic experience in postwar America.
Whitehead thereby does not leave the empirical facts as merely arbitrary, but tries to account for them on the basis of «the doctrine that an actual fact is a
fact of aesthetic experience.
Yet they impart this perception without regret, as if our transient awareness were not only without tragedy, but constituted the very
essence of aesthetic experience.
Having graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in Philosophy and Semiotics in 1996, Jacob's work addresses issues of social interaction and the
subjectivity of aesthetic experience.
Brooklyn, NY — February 19, 2014 — Through hardedge paintings in acrylic on canvas Jerry Walden investigates the nature
of the aesthetic experience by combining Formalist compositional elements of color, line, pattern and direction with personal emotions and memories.
Although Whitehead never developed his interpretation
of aesthetic experience very far, 6 we can deepen our understanding of artistic expression by attention to the theories of Merleau - Ponty.
They have so underemphasized the empirical way, which concentrates on the physical response to the past, that the
power of aesthetic experience has been neglected.
They have so emphasized the rationalistic way, which concentrates on the intellectual organization of the past, that the
meaning of aesthetic experience has been exaggerated.
It's an explicitly funny, absolutely entertaining three hours that nonetheless leaves us with a distinctive sense of emptiness, despite the
fullness of aesthetic experience to which we've just been subject.
The first is related to the
phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences.
Ha's paintings, uniformly titled Conjunctions, propose a
kind of aesthetic experience, a qualitative leap into an epic momentum, referencing both spiritual and secular impulses along the way.
Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the
wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.
And, yes, in its insistence on interactivity and the privileging of the corporeal and sensual
realm of aesthetic experience, Neto's work updates that of Oiticica and Clark.
Whether through paint or video, Pindell squeezes the spatial and temporal
attributes of aesthetic experience, and finds new ways to disorganize, or at times even suffocate, the space of aesthetic contemplation.
He brought up Taylor Swift as an example of an under - recognized figure in the arts, whose fangirl audience appreciates her work on a
level of aesthetic experience.
Each reveling in visual detail, eliciting an almost iconoclastic charge, the works in this exhibition continue to expose layers of pleasure and discomfort lurking beneath the
surface of aesthetic experience.
Operating within this zeitgeist, artists experimented with a range of practices that questioned authorship, explored new collective forms of art making, and opened up new
modes of aesthetic experience.
Whether they major in the field or take a course or two, students have found that informed visual thinking, no less than the
pleasure of aesthetic experience, continues to enrich their lives and their work.
It shows us whether abstract art is making a wide enough social impact to affect influential tastemakers, and what other
types of aesthetic experiences are leaving memorable imprints on the minds and hearts of those who write about art as a profession.
Simultaneously confounding and illuminating, The Intuitionists at the Drawing Center is a puzzle within a puzzle, a conceptual stunt that raises sticky questions about curatorial responsibility and the
structuring of aesthetic experience.
The abstract artist can approach man through the most
immediate of aesthetic experiences, touching below consciousness and the veneer of attitudes, contacting the whole ego rather than the ego on the defensive.»
But a certain amount of bewilderment is, of course, essential to the
essence of an aesthetic experience, so if possible, see the more impressionistically organized Phillips Collection before the Hirshhorn.
To provide cultural leadership in Southwest Florida by maintaining a high standard of quality and by offering exhibitions with a wide
variety of aesthetic experiences and not otherwise available to area residents and visitors.
Luis Jacob (b. Peru, 1971) works in Toronto as an artist, curator and writer, and his diverse practice addresses issues of social interaction and the
subjectivity of aesthetic experience.
«Furthermore, the conquest of each box is added to the pleasure of an enigma; that of the end and of a rebirth; that of a corpse magically revived;
that of an aesthetic experience compared to the banality of an object.»