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.
Not exact matches
In choosing the look
of their big - budget production, Lord and Miller stick to that
aesthetic, using computer animation to simulate the
surface texture and slightly jerky movement we might expect if someone had orchestrated the entire
experience with plastic toys painstakingly repositioned and photographed one frame at a time (according to the press notes, that would have taken no fewer than 15,080,330 bricks).
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.