/ by Edward Mullany

In other words, no artist is interested in aesthetics alone. The work of a particular artist might ‘speak’ to you because of its aesthetics; that is, a given artist might become one of your favorites, when you first encounter their work, because of the aesthetics that are uniquely that artist’s own (I’m thinking here of what we call ‘style.’) But that artist will likely remain one of your favorites, over time, because of the way that he or she renders the moral dimension of reality. Which rendering turns out to be, when you study it closely, inextricable from ‘style,’ and vice versa.