Word: aestheticized
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Is he that good? Not quite, but to fall short of such a comparison is still to achieve something. Stella is a pictorial rhetorician on the grand scale, and nobody who cares about the fate of abstract painting today could chew through this show -- cramped and arrhythmic though its installation...
The original plans for the restoration project, proposed by Radcliffe landscapers last year, included a surrounding garden, but such ideas had to be reduced for economic and aesthetic reasons.
Almodovar is unrestrained even in terms of cinematic techniques. He shoots Pablo as he types from beneath the typewriter, for instance, so that we view him through the keys. In another silly scene, Pablo types to the music. There's no consistent aesthetic--just a series of random flourishes.
Japanese style? Japan is all about aesthetic discipline and refinement: it is a tidy place where ordinary buildings are Zen compositions, where cities fit together as ingeniously as a GoBot, a place where restraint and respect for tradition (rock gardens, ikebana, interior space denominated in tatami mats) come naturally, where...
Just when Berlin painting got hot with collectors in and out of Germany, its expressive energies were diverted into the task of conserving attitudes and maintaining production. Today neoexpressionism, the obsession of the early '80s, has run its course and is nearly as dead as mutton. (Will Baselitz keep painting...