The phrase "aesthetic authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about art, design, or cultural criticism to refer to the power or influence one has in determining what is considered aesthetically pleasing or valuable.
Example: "The curator's aesthetic authority shaped the exhibition, guiding visitors through a carefully curated selection of contemporary art."
Alternatives: "artistic influence" or "visual credibility".
They declaim, from the height of aesthetic authority: "The shoe is everything!" "She's genius!" "You're the bomb!" Because to flatter someone means that you get their look, that you're in on the signals being telegraphed.
He was recognized as an outstanding underwater photojournalist by New York Times art critic David Shirey, who stated that Pechter's photos "reflect a technique, a specialized expertise and an aesthetic authority that gives us a new understanding of underwater photography".
In its stringent suppression of auteurism -- all signatories to the vow of chastity "swear to refrain from creating a 'work' " -- dogmatism, at least as applied by Mr. Kragh-Jacobsen, derives impressive aesthetic authority from ordinary sights and sounds.
It has been hung in a special display that highlights the central place of this painting in the history of western art, next to two paintings that illuminate Titian's depth of influence (Rubens's Judgement of Paris and Cézanne's Bathers) and near other paintings by artists from Poussin to Constable that display the range of Titian's aesthetic authority.
7. Reject the stranglehold of the L.A. aesthetic, and all prevailing aesthetic authorities for that matter.
Among other valuable lessons, the 150 works in this requisite traveling retrospective reiterated for me the imperative of active viewership, the necessity of disregarding the rules, the relativity of beauty, the importance of rejecting aesthetic authorities, the merits of irreverence, and above all, always rising from the ashes.
One senses it as an aesthetic ambition, in the necessary authority of the opening pages.
Received ideas, and especially aesthetic values sanctioned by the authority of official institutions, were distrusted, and the individual was pitted against society.
The building, designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, with its golden half-dome, half-garland roof, expresses Klimt's aesthetic, and yet the classical authority of the building insists that this is serious.
Instead he conveyed his authority through an aesthetic that became characteristic of his reign: loose, flamboyant, arabesque patterns can be traced from textiles and carpets to tiles and manuscripts.
The shift from classical to romantic art, then, represents a broader shift between a culture whose final authority was an aesthetic one and a culture in which this authority was handed over to religion, and thus represents a shift in the authoritativeness of different cognitive forms.
