2021 Her aesthetic was approachable but pulled-together aspirational but attainable. 2021 Despite the brevity of Reed’s career, his aesthetic is well established. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Its Brutalist aesthetic, all sloped angles and copious amounts of concrete, is right out of the Ken Adam playbook.ĬNN, 20 Sep. 2021 Because of the Netflix drama’s overwhelming success, many were quick to tie the video’s opulent aesthetic to that of Bridgerton.Įliza Huber,, 2 Aug. 2021 Fans will be able to grab special, limited-edition cans with a collaborative design featuring Balvin's lightning bolt and neon aesthetic. 2021 Babbit’s coming-of-age lesbian comedy combines Waters’s kitsch aesthetic with her own ’90s style, telling a knowing and witty story of the 17-year-old Megan (Natasha Lyonne) being sent to a conversion-therapy camp.ĭavid Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Sep.
2021 Where Snap’s design team has leaned into the Burning Man aesthetic for its Spectacles, Facebook and Ray-Ban went normcore. 2021 Nelson’s aesthetic in these plays has been so demonstrably uniform - and to some who are easily made antsy, so defiantly talky - that an audience member either commits or tunes out.
2021 And an iconic image of the actress in a white cashmere sweater and pants with slingback pumps sealed his design aesthetic for this season.Īllyson Portee, Forbes, 11 Sep.
2021 Olivia Rodrigo took the punk rock aesthetic from her debut album Sour straight to the 2021 Met Gala on Monday evening (Sept. Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Bell & Ross steps up with a new GMT dual timer that adds a sleek, urban vibe to its signature instrumentation aesthetic.Ĭarol Besler, Robb Report, 14 Sep. So Sontag was wrong to describe camp as an "unserious, 'aesthete's' vision." Aesthetics is always serious when agreed-upon interpretations are changed or stolen or emptied out.Ī word that follows a similar pattern is poetics, (which also happens to be the title of a work by Aristotle focusing on literary theory and discourse):Ī poetics of film, he has argued, seeks to reveal the conventions that films use to achieve their effects-and cognitive explanations provide insight into how and why filmic conventions, like shot-reverse-shot or empathy close-ups, produce the effects they do.Īs a plural noun, aesthetics can also be used as a synonym for beauty:įor reasons of economy and aesthetics, though, most of the house was stick built and is perfectly cozy without any elaborate beam work. And this is where an aesthetics of the double feature emerges.Ĭhadwick Jenkins, PopMatters, 16 Aug.
The double feature became a special element of movie houses concentrating on the presentation of classic and art films. With the removal of the studio packages, those cinema owners still providing double features began exploring less arbitrary and more justified pairings of films. This sense is sometimes encountered in constructions that treat it as singular: The unlikely beauty of his rusty treasures defied elaboration. In the plural form, aesthetics can refer to the theory of art and beauty-and in particular the question of what makes something beautiful or interesting to regard:Īlthough he could extemporize animatedly about the history of the valve seat grinder, or the art of ropemaking, or how long it took to manually drill blast holes into a deposit of coal, aesthetics were another matter. The noun aesthetic is often found used in its plural form. The Singular (Or Plural) Art of Aesthetics