Word: aestheticized
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The awesome calm of Indian art often bewilders Western viewers. The gods -- the usual subject of Indian paintings and sculpture -- maintain an expression of cosmic serenity even when engaged in brutal battle or erotic activity. Many Westerners find the lush anatomy and serpentine lines oversensuous and corrupt, and on the...
Indian art is designed to inspire spiritual freedom and self-realization. It attempts to release the spirit from the individual ego in order to entirely become one with the divine nature of the Self; to attain awareness of the total unity of being. The aesthetic experience in Indian art occurs...
But the Brattle fans' real hero is Godard himself. Champion of love and poetry, foe of technology and sterility, Godard fights a never-ending battle for all sorts of aesthetic things that the computer which rules Alphaville, Alpha 60, just doesn't appreciate.
The art of Andy Warhol has no such frame or illusion of space, and its subject matter comes directly out of the viewer's immediate environment. Warhol's subjects are Brillo boxes, movie queens, and the obvious objects of everyday life. His art denies the traditional aesthetic illusion.
Warhol paintings, because they lack any quality of illusion, or personal emotional involvement, are decorative rather than imaginative experiences for the viewer. But seen in this light, they demonstrate taste and skill. Their bright colors and attractive design put them in a class with Danish furniture or Florentine leather; they...