Simultaneously, Mungiu's vision avoids the aesthetic abstractions and ornaments that condense such loose ends into reverberant, interpretively untethered symbols.
He's in the grip of philosophical, moral, and aesthetic abstractions that suck the life out of the life at hand — and as the realization of his film, and of his life's goals, seems ever more distant, his actual life seems even more like an elusive dream, too.
He's in the grip of philosophical, moral, and aesthetic abstractions that suck the life out of the life at hand and as the realization of his film, and of his life's goals, seems ever more distant, his actual life seems even more like an elusive dream, too.
More than the New Jersey center, though, it seems committed to an aesthetic of abstraction.
He rarely participated in the ideological controversies of Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono, and company; indeed, his "prankster" pieces of the sixties seemed like a protest against the prevailing aesthetic of abstraction.
It seemed like a way to foil the aesthetic expectations of abstraction, with a nod to Cage and Jensen.
The paradox of intimate confession and aesthetic refinement, of theoretical abstraction and first-person emotion, is the very blend that makes Bergman one of the exemplary modern directors and one of the exemplary objects of parody.
Rich with ideas and formally virtuosic, this traveling 10-year survey of work by the Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford asks some very basic aesthetic questions — what's abstraction, what's painting, what's black art — and comes up with complicatedly gorgeous answers.
Our results suggest that bvFTD patients can give an aesthetic judgment, but present abstraction difficulties, as spectators, resulting from impairments in the cognitive processes involved.
Nowadays the abstractions of aesthetic and intellectual criteria matter much less to me than people's efforts to console themselves, to free themselves, to escape from themselves, by sitting down and making something.
