Yet her choreography has the feeling of an esthetic response, inspired by a painting more than the experience behind it.
Art these days has very little to do with esthetic responses; it has more to do with intellectual responses.
It was a fingering piece, so called because there is an esthetic response to the cool, almost soapy feel of jade.
In pursuit of the universal, "Rings" glosses over the particular, if not the obvious, in individual artworks and presumes too much about the viewer's esthetic response.
It requires us to break the vicious cycle of compartmentalization that obliges us to live and work in a functional world that leaves little room for an esthetic response.
Escalating sensation supplants intellectual and esthetic response.
Having rejected traditional theories of esthetic response, doesn't he owe us some other account of how art is to affect and engage us?
"This involves not just coming up with superficial countermeasures but an intelligent and contemporary esthetic response to the pre-existing situation."
The contrasting opinions and insights clarify the individuality of esthetic response while illuminating the pictures themselves.
Does it provoke an esthetic and intellectual response?
