Word: estheticizing
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Agony in a Yawn. A hallmark of the collection is its focus on the well-painted picture with perfect brushwork. Nothing among Simon's pictures looks unfinished or sloppy. "Simon's primary consideration is esthetic quality without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles...
He is a master of crowd scenes, never moving bunches of people about aimlessly or frantically. Like the great film directors, D. W. Griffith and Eisenstein, he achieves compositions of masses in motion that have esthetic force and balance. When the soldiers circle their king, they are humble spokes of...
YIELD? Indiana spent nine years studying art, right through a fellowship to the University of Edinburgh. Nevertheless, he believes that art should not demand head-scratching analysis. His esthetic is frankly skin-deep, but "its comprehension can be as immediate as a crucifixion." So can his emblems, during these times...
Sir: Your critic's enthusiasm about the acoustics at the new State Theater compared with those in Philharmonic Hall underscores the subjective nature of listening and the absurdity of the whole recent furor about acoustics. For all his esthetic sensitivity, he apparently did not note that, as opposed to...
Bop Ruled the Night. The esthetic decline involved in this defection is all but unthinkable to Birdland's old habitues, who knew the place as the remaining link to the great days of the early '50s, when bop ruled the night on 52nd Street and Broadway. The club...