Sentence examples for visual affront from inspiring English sources
They still represent '80s appropriation art at its most seamlessly provocative: a mental if not a visual affront, well-enough executed to read also as a tribute.
It is not just the lightning strike of his pictorial imagination – the raking light, the sideways hurtle, the pullulation of figures: the sheer visual affront.
These days, surreal juxtapositions have become mass-media cliches more commonly used in advertising than art; what has been lost is the initial frisson of dislocation, the visual affront of irrationally combined disparate images.
It was the recurrent public-art problem: once you go into a museum, you have agreed (tacitly, anyway) to put up with all sorts of visual affronts, but, if you're just walking by outside, you haven't.
Too often hotel art is amateurish and unconsidered if not an outright affront to visual aesthetics.
Even the faint trails left by the least damaging vehicles, it said, remain visible from the air for many years and "affront the residents and degrade the visual experience of the landscape".
While fashion types view this running experiment in sports anti-style as an affront to sensible tailoring, baseball traditionalists (a term that is virtually redundant) see it as something more: a perilous break with the visual identity of the game.
Either way, the affront was noticed.
Rejection is taken as a personal affront.
