The phrase "aesthetic gesture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or movement that is intended to be visually pleasing or to convey a sense of beauty.
Example: "The dancer's performance was filled with aesthetic gestures that captivated the audience."
Alternatives: "artistic expression" or "visual gesture".
Mechanical louvers on the lower floors, for instance, are arranged as thin vertical slits, an aesthetic gesture that took a lot of complicated engineering to achieve.
Best known for his "monochromes" -- paintings of a single hue, preferably blue -- Klein made his first aesthetic gesture by signing the sky in the Riviera resort of Nice.
The first argument was never as strong as it sounded: Where is the court that decides that an aesthetic gesture is a "precedent"?
Ordinarily, the development of a $224 million, five-track, three-platform station, to be used by 50,000 commuters daily, would call for some bold aesthetic gesture.
While it clearly draws on folk art and American Indian art, the animism and spirituality of the latter was vital to its being: it was imperative to communicate with the spirits, not as an aesthetic gesture or a form of escape from the world, but because existence — yours, and that of your ancestors and descendents — depended upon it.
When I was reading Harry Thompson's 1997 biography of Cook, it occurred to me that if one wanted to make a truly shocking aesthetic gesture, one that would more or less completely unite the country in outrage in a way which it becomes harder to do each year, the only available option would be to launch a sustained and vituperative attack on his memory.
How many realised that those weren't master plans at all, just aesthetic gestures, notions of what could, but by no means would, ever be?
They aren't toys or playhouses or aesthetic gestures — a copy of Monticello as a sandbox in a field in East Hampton, say — and they aren't shacks or cottages, either.
GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT Villareal's penchant for sweeping aesthetic gestures is visible in many of the projects she produces with Doreen Remen, her co-founder at Art Production Fund, and Casey Fremont, their director.
"I work mostly in aesthetic tonalism like a tone poem without a clear objective or obvious antagonists, but with aesthetic gestures and the act of appropriation I hope to stir the audience to consider the very act of processing visual information," he says.
Their rebellion has been a grand gesture, an aesthetic style without a social core".
