Within a decade his passion for Baroque and Mannerist painting — and memories of Cinemascope Hollywood movies — results in highly complex structures populated with opulent cascades of ribbony brushstrokes. (artinamericamagazine.com)
Each will focus on a different aspect of Dean's practice; the NPG will show her portrait work, including her six - screen portrait of Merce Cunningham, the National Gallery will display still lifes (both 15 March — 28 May), and the RA will show landscapes — among them, a new 35 mm CinemaScope film called Antigone (19 May — 12 August). (apollo-magazine.com)
The very first image we see announces Chazelle's grand ambitions: we see a black - and - white square frame — the old pre-1953 Academy aspect ratio of 4:3 — with the word CinemaScope framed in the center, its right and left syllables cut off, which suddenly expands to the wider aspect ratio that the word implies (in this case, 2.55:1), gaining color at the same time. (chrisreedfilm.com)