Word: estheticism
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Sir: Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American...
Gates of Marriage. Beauty has no important place in Tony Smith's hierarchy of esthetic values. Amaryllis was so named because the top-heavy form made by connecting octahedrons and tetrahedrons reminded him of the bulbous coarseness of what he considers an "almost obscene flower." Willie, a spiky, tilted...
Actually, mimesis as a theory of art was an illusion, invented by a beholder for other beholders. The artists themselves always knew that they were exaggerating, distorting, filtering-to express worship of the divine or a view of man, to make the real more real. But whether the emphasis was...
"Esthetics is to art what ornithology is to the birds," quips Barnett Newman. On the contrary, too many modern painters seem to listen first and paint afterward, to be guided by the art theory of others rather than an art instinct of their own. The turnover is so fast that...
Speculation & Opportunity. The simplest way to avoid being sold a fake, says Grotz, is to stick with a reputable dealer or else buy merchandise that has not yet become remote enough in time or expensive enough for the fakers to bother with it. He believes that regardless of its age...