The phrase "aesthetic intent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the purpose or goal behind the visual or artistic choices made in a work of art, design, or any creative endeavor.
Example: "The artist's aesthetic intent was to evoke a sense of tranquility through the use of soft colors and flowing lines."
Alternatives: "artistic purpose" or "visual intention".
"My work is functional, always with an aesthetic intent," he said.
The essential considerations for windows must be based on the functional needs and on the overall aesthetic intent.
*Has Saarinen's aesthetic intent already been lost to an accumulation of unsympathetic signs, kiosks and security devices?
Set to and inspired by Leon Redbone's growling, gargling interpretations of classic songs like "Sheik of Araby" and "Shine On Harvest Moon," "Paper Tiger" might be a declaration of aesthetic intent.
Indeed, the opening scene of "Shoah" is a declaration of aesthetic intent: it shows Simon Srebnik, a survivor of Chelmno, in a rowboat similar to the one in which he had travelled on work detail with S.S. men, singing one of the songs with which he had serenaded his captors.
That was, as much as anything, a statement of aesthetic intent, a reminder of an ambitious, poetic strand of Australian writing that was too often sidelined in an era in which mainstream theatre was dominated by a conservative version of naturalism.
As the first tangible element of the Freedom Tower -- and, by extension, the trade center redevelopment -- and as an image seen nationwide on Independence Day, the cornerstone sent an aesthetic signal of intent.
Choose an aesthetic or design.
Kushner's own aesthetic education involved periods of intent reticence, an evolution of the observer-participant stance she took with her friends in the Sunset.
This might seem like a story of creative obsession — a compulsive monomaniac so intent on achieving aesthetic perfection that he became subsumed by his work — but Barker, one of at least several itinerant filmmakers working in the first half of the 20th century, was more huckster than auteur.
Any view of even slightly more positive valence bows in the direction of intent to generate aesthetic value.
