Most Durable Definition for Style

[lazydullard]

Style is unnecessary frill motion used to sustain an idealized form of self generated by the exchange of opinion-weight between unplacatable wants within the performer and established schools of aesthetic thought.

 

[herbavore]

I had to read that sentence about three times but it was worth it. I agree!

 

[sigmond]

I read the sentence several times and I am confused.

I find this more coherent: "Style is unnecessary frill motion used to sustain an idealized form of self generated exchange and opinion-weight between unplacatable wants within the performer and established schools of aesthetic thought".

 

[herbavore]

Well, I could be wrong still but here's what I think OP was saying: Style is born of the intersection of what the performer is truly channeling (from the muse, flow, creation unhampered by opinion or time) and the current established schools of aesthetic thought/sensibilities. Thus art is shaped by time and place and not shaped by time and place.8)8(

 

[spacejunk]

The ability to adapt and transform (if i'm reading the OP correctly???)