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Inconsistent as an artist, Palermo was either a gifted abstract painter unwilling to commit, or he was a Conceptual artist who made good work despite his antiaesthetic leanings.
Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011
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Outspoken against the antiaesthetic trends of Pop Art and Conceptualism—and as elegant and engaging a lecturer on painting as any around—Mr. Bell was among the vanguard of postwar New York artists furthering the tradition of the School of Paris.
Crushed and Brushed Lance Esplund 2011
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Inconsistent as an artist, Palermo was either a gifted abstract painter unwilling to commit, or he was a Conceptual artist who made good work despite his antiaesthetic leanings.
Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011
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Yet there is an offhandedness and ingrained antiaesthetic bent to Mr. Golub's approach, as if he is concerned more with his convoluted messages than with making a self-sustaining work of art.
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Videojournalism for me, I told him, was a dynamic flux between the instant, situating oneself to anticipate the inter frame, the “visual moment” and prompting the appropriate narrative, where applicable. e.g. antiaesthetic VJ shoot
Frame grabbing: The art of drawing great photography from video » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009
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Bands like Marilyn Manson and Korn would seem like obvious extensions of ‘80s metal Manson loves to rave about Judas Priest, but those antiaesthetic sensibilities don’t wash with people who associate their tastes with the prettier, cleaner groups of the former decade.
Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003
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By 1967, her antiaesthetic has been completely worked out.
Finding It at the Movies Menand, Louis 1995
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Even in his predecessor’s plain, antiaesthetic days, it was a fine room.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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Even in his predecessor’s plain, antiaesthetic days, it was a fine room.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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Even in his predecessor’s plain, antiaesthetic days, it was a fine room.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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