Nor does he lose a sense of the relation a relation necessary to the meaning of the aesthetic language we use – between the aesthetically-descriptive expressions we employ within particular contexts and "what we call the culture of the period" (Wittgenstein 1966, 8).
The aesthetic language belongs to another age.
"When I saw the astonishing results, I realized I had created a new aesthetic language," he said.
Once he and Mondrian have grown to share this basic aesthetic language, he becomes a really inventive artist.
Through his two central characters, Bunthorpe and Grosvenor, Gilbert gently pours scorn on aesthetic language and values and self-conscious languor, the floppiness and droopiness that characterised the craze.
He's well equipped to take on Oscar Wilde, and his 1996 opera, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," luxuriates in a suitably eclectic aesthetic language, ranging from the late-Romantic regret of the elder Richard Strauss to the minimalist pizzazz of the young Philip Glass.
But it's easy to forget that so many of the basic pieces of today's culture were the result of accidents, of people messing around with platforms such as Vine, which was ostensibly supposed to be Instagram with moving pictures, and instead inventing a new, strange, and sometimes indecipherable aesthetic language.
Such an impression conflicts both with the aesthetic language of suburban architecture, and the needs of pedestrians.
Some of the participants even employed aesthetic language in their unsolicited explanations for choosing the white doll.
Instead, Morgen plunges the viewer headlong into Cobain's troubled mind, drawing on the singer's vivid (and sometimes disturbing) aesthetic language to understand a man whose success never satisfied his need for approval.
