Here abstraction is used not as an end in itself but to reveal and intensify the subject, the artist melding figurative and abstract elements until the distinction becomes meaningless.
Describing Frustration, the piece in the video above, Franco says, "The body is fragmented to intensify the subject's feelings, and digital images are used to visualize unconscious thoughts".
In this aesthetic approach, to put it simply, art objects express and intensify human subjects' experiences of life.
For example, what does it mean, if neuronal activities in the human brain are intensified when subjects are exposed to electromagnetic radiation?
Art objects express and intensify human subjects' experiences of life; to many people, it might not even be clear what it could mean to understand art in any other way.
We have seen that because aesthetics tries to describe artworks as objects that express and intensify human subjects' experiences of life, the aesthetic approach begins "always already" too late.
Chelsea's David Luiz is the subject of intensifying speculation over a move away from Stamford Bridge with both Bayern Munich and Barcelona believed to be interested in his services.
Chief executive Tim Steiner said the company continued to grow ahead of the online grocery market and significantly ahead of the wider market, which has been the subject of intensifying competition in recent months.
The importance of soil carbon — how it is leached from the earth and how that process can be reversed — is the subject of intensifying scientific investigation, with important implications for the effort to slow the rapid rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Torshin has been the subject of intensifying U.S. government and congressional scrutiny over the past year and was recently among a lengthy list of oligarchs and Russian political figures sanctioned by the Treasury Department.
This integrative framework can potentially provide insights into the patterns and processes of dynamic landscapes in other areas subjected to intensifying human use.
