Even among some Mexican Americans, the street-wise aesthetic that was birthed in East Los Angeles's Chicanx community can get derided for its resistance to white American assimilation and its loose affiliation with gangsterism.
A decent comparison, aesthetic-wise, might be to Thomas Kinkade, if Kinkade's color palette had been dominated by crimson.
The appreciation and judgment of architectural objects are typically thought to reflect aesthetic and utility-wise considerations, and engage individual perspective, experience, reasoning, and reflection such as we associate with appreciating and judging in other artforms.
But followers would be wise not to point out his aesthetic attributes any time soon.
Contemplating such works, we can think in two modes at once, the aesthetic and the historical-political generally a wise way to navigate thistorical-political generally
In fact, given the extremely low rate of malignant transformation, "wait and see" could be a wise choice when they do not represent an aesthetic or functional issue.
Contemplating such works, we can think in two modes at once, the aesthetic and the historical-political — generally a wise way to navigate the labyrinth of art.
But as I grew older and somewhat wiser, I realized that although some men and women have aesthetic preferences there's no right or wrong when it comes to female's breasts.
But as funny as Isenstein's program can be, it's at least twice as smart, cracking wise about commodification (see: an arm and a leg), sculptural formalism, and long-held aesthetic conventions.
These books' basic traits, he thinks — "the dilemma, the dramatic crisis, the pathos, the wise sadness, and more in general a suffering made bearable, or even noble through aesthetic form" — have become mannered and artificial to the point of irrelevance.
Well, the new has an aesthetic value, of this there is no doubt, and it's one that any smart artist is wise to exploit.
