The phrase "aesthetic drift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual change or deviation in artistic style or visual appeal over time.
Example: "The film's aesthetic drift became apparent as the director shifted from vibrant colors to a more muted palette in the later scenes."
Alternatives: "visual shift" or "stylistic evolution".
And while her aesthetic style may drift, her devotion to them does not.
By contrast, in non-aesthetic experience we drift, evade, and compromise.
It is a museum in flux, whose aesthetic paradigms have drifted over the course of twenty plus years.
The trouble is that even Mr. Jacobs's ability to generate buzz, Ms. Prada's sly subversions, Mr. Lagerfeld's well-financed (by the Wertheimer family that controls Chanel) coups de théâtre can do only so much to offset an overall drift toward aesthetic complacency and boredom.
Over the years, the aesthetic has changed and drifted.
Rumph, by contrast, offers a novel and unsettling picture of a composer increasingly conservative in his beliefs, drifting toward the aesthetic nationalism of the "political Romantics".
The narration drifts from the aesthetic to the social, as Mr. Martin admits that he may be "less interested in endless amounts of stuff pressing into the moment," than in "the unforeseen combinations of objects and people, the clashes of feeling, the semiotics of tourist leisurewear".
If the group became popular for its music, attention soon drifted to its over-all aesthetic: the incongruity of four upper-middle-class boys — Koenig, Tomson, Rostam Batmanglij, and Chris Baio — channelling Third World musical traditions.
In order to raise oneself beyond the merely aesthetic life, which is a life of drifting in imagination, possibility and sensation, one needs to make a commitment.
"I think it will be our personal lives someday that get us drifting away from each other, not aesthetic disagreements," Colin Greenwood said.
