Word: aestheticized
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"John Coolidge was the soul of courtesy," Rudenstine added. "He also embodied an aesthetic taste and intellectual style which combined New English naturalness with the cultivation of a well-traveled and well trained eye and mind."
Though Whistler never went to Japan, he was seen as a bridge between East and West, the voracious collector of blue-and-white porcelain who brought a Japanese aesthetic of hints and nuances into late 19th century painting. His abhorrence of narrative, his preference for the exquisitely designed moment over...
Today how good does he look? A large retrospective jointly organized by London's Tate Gallery, Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic...
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier...
The aesthetic sense with which the singer-artist interprets music becomes refined under the influence of more than one conductor. The facility with which the singer-athlete masters vocal mechanics varies by coaching method. The understanding of the singer-student is enhanced by exposure to more than one musical viewpoint...