Word: aestheticized
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But a jury should not try to choose what it thinks the public will like best. Looking at William Georgenes' "Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician," a lady next to me summed up her basis for aesthetic evaluation by exclaiming admiringly, "Imagine all the work that had to go...
Further, "it is paradoxical that under a totalitarian regime, an aesthetic deviant has a more difficult time than a political deviant," Poggiolo commented. "You don't create avant-garde works alone in the cellar of a Moscow or Leningrad building--you need a little group."
And, as always with Brecht, there is the sense of an original, individual talent, undiverted and uncompromising, stubbornly being true to itself. This sounds like a moral rather than an aesthetic virtue, but it insures that Puntila, though often repetitive and clumsy, sometimes even boring, is seldom commonplace.
Real estate is, of course, the least of Picasso's inheritance from Cezanne. The transition from one painter to the other is direct and complete. Their aesthetic credos coincide and their sucessive development is a matter of logical procession. Yet, it is seldom that one sees the two exhibited side...
No one need doubt the eminence of Picasso. He is the aesthetic dynamo of our century and his place is assured. Cezanne, however, still contains the heart of it all in magnificent concentration. To painters interested in substance, he has always been the king. It looks as if he will...