And why would
the realm of aesthetic making and contemplation be considered paradisiacal?
Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence, an International Collaboration featuring artwork and performances by artists Merike Estna and Maria Metsalu and guest curated by Maria Arusoo, Director of CCA Estonia, observes a shift taking place in
the realm of our aesthetic and emotional sensibilities.
As part of the exhibition Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence, the performances and installations observe a shift taking place in
the realm of our aesthetic and emotional sensibilities.
Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence observes a shift taking place in
the realm of our aesthetic and emotional sensibilities.
We are entering
the realm of aesthetic eternity, escaping the relentless onslaught of ephemeral novelty in everyday life.
Not exact matches
In the midst
of the awful
realm of powers, and
of the sacred
realm of laws, the
aesthetic creative impulse is building unawares a third joyous
realm of play and
of appearance, in which it releases mankind from all the shackles
of circumstance and frees him from everything that may be called constraint, whether physical or moral.
That's what the Greeks and later Michelangelo and the sculptors he most deeply influenced were about: elevating the human figure above the
realm of optical phenomena and thereby endowing it with a more visceral presence, a deeper
aesthetic resonance, and a greater emotional significance.
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.
Today it often seems as if truly
aesthetic values have been moved out
of the social
realm altogether, into ever smaller private preserves.
Moreover, Hartshorne's optimism and his
aesthetic passion are voiced in his declaration that the truth which metaphysics discloses is both good and beautiful and that it can never be evil or ugly or objectionable.6 In tones reminiscent
of Plato, he affirms, «Metaphysical truth is in some fashion a
realm of beauty unsullied by any hint
of ugliness.
It is noteworthy that Jesus accused his contemporaries precisely
of such a failure in the
realm of the imagination, and linked it to a moral failure, for the moral and the
aesthetic are deeply intertwined (Balthasar again).
In these noetic
realms of rational skill, moral imperative and
aesthetic delight —
of encounter with the true, the good and the beautiful — other forces are at work to draw out and enhance distinctive human potentialities.
One
of them, a priest at a Shinto shrine, answered that it is the devotion to the creative forces in the universe in the bodily, the cosmic, the ethical, the intellectual, and the
aesthetic realms.
These examples
of aesthetic creativity taken from the
realm of human experience should not be disengaged from their cosmic setting.
Isle
of Dogs falls somewhere in - between, as it is not one
of Anderson's best films, yet it also puts on display precisely what makes him such a continually interesting artist, most notably his willingness to extend his familiar
aesthetic into new
realms.
There was an accompanying resistance to the split
of art and life, this making
of art into a distinct, separate
realm with its own
aesthetic jurisdiction.
Whether in the
realm of social justice, community building, spirituality or environmental concerns, the claim
of art as a pure domain
of disinterested
aesthetic contemplation has been relentlessly challenged for over two centuries.
One was that, in 1988, he unveiled his «Banality» series
of sculptures — diving face - first into the
aesthetic realms of kitsch tchotchkes and making unsettling monuments to subjects like Michael Jackson and his monkey and greeting - card pap (as in a appropriated image
of a couple holding puppies on a park bench that led to a successful and lucrative lawsuit).
Alex Da Corte's wonderfully perverse photographic works take the kind
of deadpan
aesthetic perfected by Elad Lassry and Roe Ethridge and drag it through the looking glass into a strange new synthetic
realm of product - pushing, memes, pop culture, and contemporary design.
Some
of the most memorable art on view in this year's fair tackled issues outside
of the purely
aesthetic realm.
Burgin soon decided to use photography not simply to scrutinize the gallery, but to probe the connection between the
aesthetic realm of the white cube and the world outside with a body
of work that at once mimicked and manipulated the codes
of commercial advertising.
Her
aesthetic vision signifies the importance, now more than ever,
of the possibilities
of paint and the place where duration, sustained contemplation, and perception itself, meld within the
realm of art.
The artist's stated aim
of circumventing meaning, however, leads her into the
realm of the purely
aesthetic, which can be a trap if not balanced carefully.
Through clever manipulations
of cropping, ordering, and pagination, Printed in Germany offers readers an original
aesthetic experience and comprehensive insight into the practice
of one
of today's most thought - provoking artists, while — through pure visual splendor — pushing the boundaries
of the artist's book into new
realms.
«While group exhibitions are typically built around a technique or
aesthetic concerns, this show looks at models
of engagement and cooperation between contemporary female artists, and the deeper kinds
of networking and community building that happen today in the studios, galleries and across the digital
realm.»
The contrasting delicacy
of sensuous gold foil and batik flowers suggests the collision
of economic,
aesthetic and personal
realms.
Focusing on the artistic impulse to seek out new places, experiences and dimensions, WANDERLUST invites guests on a heady journey through time and space in pursuit
of aesthetic perfection — and to other - worldly
realms that only artists can conjure.
He has done so in great contrast to his peers, and is known for willingly and repeatedly throwing himself into an
aesthetic breech and so has opened up more new and exciting territory within the
realm of abstraction than any other painter
of his generation.
Looking at the intersection
of social, technological and
aesthetic debate, the show will «reflect on how comprehensively the digital
realm influences every area
of our daily life, our perception and our production
of knowledge» and includes work by Sophia Al Maria, Auto Italia South East, Guan Xiao, Katja Novitskova, Yuri Pattison, Tabita Rezaire, and Rachel de Joode among others.
With the sensibility
of a maverick architect, Marzouk envisions
aesthetic systems that draw on a diversity
of cultural traditions but which can only exist in the
realm of the imagination.
The resulting volume (to be released in fall 2017) offers a resource for students, scholars, or any engaged reader, to consider dominant threads in
aesthetic theory along side related works
of art, including selections from structuralist and post-structuralist explorations
of representation, to German media theory, the study
of cultural techniques, and the still - burgeoning
realm of new media theory, together offering a wide array
of theoretical and methodological approaches to the world
of images, and a sense
of how those approaches have evolved over time.
This exhibition is an impressionistic journey
of sublime photographic imagery that evokes timeless emotion and takes the viewer into
aesthetic realms.
Cannily incorporating a wide range
of visual vocabularies drawn from the
realms of cinema, advertising, communications, and the history
of art alike, and strategically structuring both architectural environments and the editing
of images and sounds in order to take in the viewer and overwhelm the senses, Aitken exposes audiences to ideas — and to each other, in communal spaces — by means
of a nearly hypnotic
aesthetic.
I'm talking about capital «D» Design, which for the purposes
of this piece refers to furniture and other functional objects that also assume a glossy
aesthetic that reach beyond pure functionality into the
realm of art.
This show is the next step in that meditation, and in the case
of the abstract work, a departure from it, into the
realm of pure
aesthetic.»
In his synopsis
of the Ask Chuleta series, Sirmans explains that by «using the easily accessible D.I.Y.
aesthetic of much video art, Raimundi - Ortiz's performance explores the televisual world in a
realm between public - access cable television and the confessionals
of reality TV.»
The group exhibition invites seven international artists to examine the power
of the image in the contemporary world, but «the real task for them is to filter the images, to recognise the systems that images operate within, to follow their paths
of circulation in the contemporary (art) world, to predict their abilities and the sociopolitical,
aesthetic and ethical dimensions images acquire as they traverse different
realms of reality».
The Duchampian infra - thin as embodiment
of the membranic in the
aesthetic realm is
of particular interest and functions as periodic influence in my work.
Her artistic practice is primarily interested in the historical cycles
of toxins within military, daily, and
aesthetic realms as well as the poetical recourse deriving from that shift.
Paul Kasmin Gallery - New York By Taliesin Thomas The art
of Los Angeles - based painter Mark Ryden (born 1963, Oregon) is redolent
of an Aristotelian fairytale: themes such as sense and sensibilia, memory, dreams, divination, physics and physiognomy blend together to illustrate Ryden's metaphysical musings and his
aesthetic forays into the complex
realms of fantastical -LSB-...]
Mounted onto plywood surfaces, Simmons» paintings reference hoardings and construction sites, reminding us
of the temporality
of culture, its questionable accessibility and recalling the objecthood and impact
of these
aesthetic interventions in the public
realm.
This archival impulse revolutionized art production over the ensuing decades, paving the way for a conceptually driven use
of photography as a means
of absorbing the world at large into a new
aesthetic realm.
The series provided Anderson with an
aesthetic playground to explore the
realms of detail, texture and abstraction.
Dated to the early 15th century (1404 — 1438), the meaning and origin
of the manuscript has made it the subject
of speculation in both formal scholarship and
aesthetic realm alike, and its enigmatic contents have long held a fascination for the artist.