He broke away from tradition and considered the mind and
body of the viewer in many of his artworks, such as Mile of String, 1942 with long lengths of string stretched across the gallery.
Not exact matches
Unlike Serial, which explored how a suspect's race and religion might have been held against him, The Jinx riveted
viewers by exploring the role
of privilege and how Durst's high - priced legal defense team could manage to help him evade the most serious criminal charges against him even when,
in one case, he'd actually admitted to having dismembered a person's
body.
When singing partner Justin Timberlake,
in what appeared to be a planned ending to the intermission, yanked off part
of Jackson's top at the conclusion
of the song Rock Your
Body, tens of millions of viewers saw one more body part than NFL or CBS executives would have prefer
Body, tens
of millions
of viewers saw one more
body part than NFL or CBS executives would have prefer
body part than NFL or CBS executives would have preferred.
«I'm really not bothered if
viewers see bits
of my
body that they might not see
in real life.
It is a fair guess, however, that most
viewers by far are here to behold the spectacle
of authenticity promised
in the touring exhibition's tagline: «The Anatomical Exhibition
of Real Human
Bodies.»
Designed to be modified for the
viewer at any point
in their health cycle, Healing Through Movement gives you sustainable development
of lower
body, upper
body, and core muscles, culminating into a full
body workout.
All
of which is seen through Laura's eyes as she provides a ground level view
of what goes on around her for the
viewer, as she becomes little more than a commodity to the criminals with her
body (notice how it is described, by the way) used and abused, with little choice
in her actions.
In fact, it vocalizes just about everything
viewers might be thinking — from the quantity and quality
of spousal participation to a flagging
body image to the individual pieces
of parental responsibility.
I loved how there's a lack
of subtitles and how much
of the film
in general is told visually, forcing the
viewer to focus on facial expressions and
body language to pick up on what's going on.
Unfortunately, that wholesome messaging doesn't leave much room for what Brewer does best — namely, music - backed scenes that, through lurid lighting, slick camera whips and glides, and the sounds
of breathing and grunting mixed just above the music, put the
viewer inside a
body in total abandon to a song.
«Get Out» directed by Jordan Peele: For white
viewers, this debut feature from «Key & Peele» star Jordan Peele offers a glimpse at how the other half lives; for everyone else, it's more
of a documentary
in body horror movie drag.
Gertrud renounces external eventfulness
in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow
viewers to focus on acting and the
body rather than on technical formalist tricks,
in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention
of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator
of instant meaning and knowledge as
in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation
of the truism that a longwinded presentation
of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved,
in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode
of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.
Ratner also appears to be really pushing the overdone homoerotic joke between the two male characters, but whether they are rubbing suntan lotion on each other's
bodies or spending the night together
in a hotel bed, though what is comparably worse is the seemingly short and nimble runtime (just over 90 - minutes), which dragged by so slowly that a handful
of viewers deemed it reasonable to fall asleep.
An impressionistic barrage
of sexually frustrated prisoners grasping for each other and at themselves, their musculature bathed
in chiaroscuro light as they lovingly move their hands down their
bodies while they're watched by drooling, baton - wielding guards, Un chant d'amour is an all - consuming work
of art that aims to liberate the
viewer through erotic fantasy.
One doesn't need to dig deep into his
body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its
viewers lose interest
in anything other than endless repeat viewings
of the film.
So whereas
in traditional media,
viewers might see representations
of women being used or exploited, gaming offers players the unique opportunity to use or exploit female
bodies themselves.
Because there is no background or even
body in many
of the images, the
viewer must wring all the information possible from small details like the sitter's hair and grooming habits.»
With his 1986 Self - Portrait, Durham asks the
viewer to see his
body as a series
of distorted parts, notably his dandelion - colored penis and his absence
of a heart (feathers appear
in its place).
Helen Frankenthaler's life and art produced a remarkable
body of work that inspired an artistic movement and continues to inspire new generations
of artists and
viewers in her unique pursuit
of truth and beauty.
His
body language and the mysterious eye contact he makes with
viewers are provocative, offering his interpretation
of sexuality and the fluid nature
of identity
in contemporary contexts.
Myers's works surround the
viewer, offering a dense and diagrammatic field
in which to locate one's own
body while observing her invented systems
of fantastic phenomena.
The last work
viewers will see
in Phantom
Bodies is Bill Viola's «Isolde's Ascension (The Shape
of Light
in Space After Death),» a nearly 11 - minute video played
in a loop.
The work is intended to act as a catalyst: by walking
in, through and around it, the
viewer's awareness
of his / her own
body is intensified.
In his manifesto, The Ergonic Messenger, Dugger explains how in Participation Art, the body or hand of the viewer is «used to give forceful impetus to the artwork by articulating or positioning the sculptural elements manually... relying on the power of the human hand to provide action or motion.&raqu
In his manifesto, The Ergonic Messenger, Dugger explains how
in Participation Art, the body or hand of the viewer is «used to give forceful impetus to the artwork by articulating or positioning the sculptural elements manually... relying on the power of the human hand to provide action or motion.&raqu
in Participation Art, the
body or hand
of the
viewer is «used to give forceful impetus to the artwork by articulating or positioning the sculptural elements manually... relying on the power
of the human hand to provide action or motion.»
In Acoustics (Eaton Canyon), 2013, the
viewer sees the artist clapping his hand over a running
body of water.
California (Sacremento to be exact), native, Liz Larner presents a new
body of work at Regen Projects
in Los Angeles, but what is happily off - kilter about this bold, sculptural presentation, is that coupled with it
viewers find a side gallery
in which an earlier selection
of notably smaller, object - based works acts as an unusual and telling counterpoint.
Throughout, the human
body is eerily absent from the installation, replaced by stand -
ins who attempt to lull the
viewer into a false sense
of security
in the hands
of technology.
The exhibition consists important
bodies of new «Strip», «Flow» and «Doppelgrau» paintings, the show will also include a large glass sculpture and a selection
of key earlier pieces that help the
viewer to understand his course
in the art world.
The
body - proportioned canvases are animated and energized by the
viewer — Grotjahn's airy and atmospheric surfaces motivate observers to move their
bodies in space from side to side, as well as bending, stooping and stretching,
in order to see the play
of light on his thick application
of paint.
While it differs from a modern conception
of the spiritual, the exchange between the work and the
viewers themselves takes shape as a rapid back - and - forth, push - and - pull
of physical - mental sensations, resulting
in a more connected and unified
body - mind, or some other state
of elevated consciousness.
Other works featured
in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised
of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower
of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs)
of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series
of large - scale X-Ray images
of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border
of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation
of the
body; «Role Play Drawings» a series
of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the
viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House
of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.
The entire show consists
of six different chapters, each showing different relation between the
body and the space, from a large 8x2 meter charcoal studies depicting football hooligans fighting, four paintings
of the skaters
in a modern art museum breaking a series
of paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, six black paintings representing the infinite space beyond the surface
of the abstract paintings, a cast resin sculpture and a drawing
of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, all the way to the interactive app that allows
viewers to interact with the works on view.
Each piece
in these various
bodies of works is designed to guide the
viewer to a different experience inspired by how various cultures make sense
of our existence.
I Am the Mouth II (2014) features a pair
of disembodied lips that is half - submerged
in water and whispers seductively about the mechanisms by which words,
in the form
of sound waves, make their way through various materials including the
viewer's own
body.
The human
body becomes a canvas for projections
of flowers which are
in a process
of continuous change — growing, decaying and scattering
in direct response to the
viewers» movements.
The
body of work effectively raised questions about racism
in Brazil, leaving them up to the
viewer to resolve.
Her work is informed by her daily experience with ambiguity and seeks to dismantle assumptions
of our fixed subjectivity through images that challenge the
viewer to contend with the disorganized
body in a state
of excess.
Durgin's
body of work creates a mutable and highly charged space
in which the
viewer is challenged to define what is real and what is beautiful.
From Claudia Hart's critique
of digital technology and the misogyny
of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions
of skin to Laura Splan's mixture
of scientific and domestic
in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge
of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea
of a «virtual
body» — the show guides the
viewer through an array
of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question
of disembodiment and post-humanism
in particular.
Neel's famous naked self - portrait (1980) depicts the artist
in old age, perched on a blue and white striped sofa surrounded by blocks
of vital color — green, yellow, blue — calm and fearless
in herself, staring at the
viewer through slightly skewed glasses (her only attire), mouth firmly downturned and cheeks ruddy above the deliquescence
of her aged
body, a sinking galleon
of pale flesh.
This runs counter to the recent proliferation
in the media
of disturbing images documenting police violence against black
bodies, which are thought to have a triggering effect on their
viewers.
The Revolution Will Be Painted: Deux is a new
body of work by Anne Sherwood Pundyk that uses color to draw
in the
viewer.
The artist makes sure to push himself not only creatively but moreover, mindfully — constantly presenting and addressing new ideas and concepts to the
viewer, resulting
in a diverse and complex yet energetic
body of work, turning each art ashow and gallery exhibition into a new experience while staying impressively and consistently recognizeable.
The
bodies of the work, painter and
viewer are implicated
in a choreography that intensifies the tactile condition
of seeing and feeling.
In Retroactive II (1963)-- a painting illustrated in the catalog but not on the wall at MoMA — some white paint outlines a pointing - hand gesture in a picture of the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, separating it from the rest of his body and turning it into an emblematic indication of the painting's power to interpellate its viewe
In Retroactive II (1963)-- a painting illustrated
in the catalog but not on the wall at MoMA — some white paint outlines a pointing - hand gesture in a picture of the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, separating it from the rest of his body and turning it into an emblematic indication of the painting's power to interpellate its viewe
in the catalog but not on the wall at MoMA — some white paint outlines a pointing - hand gesture
in a picture of the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, separating it from the rest of his body and turning it into an emblematic indication of the painting's power to interpellate its viewe
in a picture
of the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, separating it from the rest
of his
body and turning it into an emblematic indication
of the painting's power to interpellate its
viewer.
For his first gallery exhibition
in New York since 2012, Neto will present a new
body of finger - crocheted immersive sculptures, installations and wall works that fill both floors
of the gallery's space, inviting the
viewer into an all - encompassing sensorial experience.
His investigation
of the
body in space,
in relation to
viewers responded to Minimalist sculpture and what became known as the charged space between the
viewer and the object.
In works like Darkytown Rebellion (2000), the artist uses overhead projectors to throw colored light onto the ceiling, walls, and floor
of the exhibition space; the lights cast a shadow
of the
viewer's
body onto the walls, where it mingles with Walker's black - paper figures and landscapes.
He protested the swift reification
of these artists by taking the object (expensive - to - produce sculpture) out
of the equation, shifting the focus instead on his
body in relation to the
viewer or participant's
body.
As a Reader, as a
Viewer: the curators
of Move Still will guide visitors through two distinct spatial and temporal perspectives
of the exhibition: emphasizing the descriptive and interpretive relationships between the
body, material apparatuses, and tasking embedded
in the included works.