Sentences with phrase «challenges its viewer by»

Part 2 takes some fairly odd turns that return Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) to the fold, challenging viewers by making the final showdown with Voldemort more complicated than simple wand fu.
Jenkins's work is generally performance - based, and he often challenges the viewer by questioning what it means to be an artist; indeed, he recently gave an artist's talk which included employing hecklers to shout him down.
Artists in this exhibition invite spectators to take a closer look at films, challenging viewers by playing with their perceptions and memories of characters and movies that have become a familiar part of their lives.

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But other kinds of VR can reinforce the problem by giving a viewer only a specific version of the events (Tom Kent of the Associated Press has written about some of these ethical challenges).
Parks raised funds by allowing viewers to request whacky challenges such as getting a tattoo, singing karaoke, eating wet dog food, writing poems and shaving off his eyebrows.
Examining absurd theories around Mad Men and True Detective, Julia Yost characterizes this phenomenon as a shift from the aesthetic to the forensic: «Everything on screen and soundtrack is a clue, and the viewer's challenge is to suss out the secrets encoded by the creators» choices in writing, casting, wardrobe, and art direction.
Everything on screen and soundtrack is a clue, and the viewer's challenge is to suss out the secrets encoded by the creators» choices in writing, casting, wardrobe, and art direction.
Orgasmic Birth brings the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth.
I suggest that by refusing to demonise the incumbent, Syllenhaal isn't just challenging our beliefs around politics but also the traditional structure of a Hollywood screenplay, which usually coerces viewers into an emotional response by ramping up the evil of the villain.
To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.
A talented and attractive actress who has managed to wrangle a remarkable number of affecting roles despite her youthful age, Elisabeth Moss may be best known to television viewers as the President's daughter on the acclaimed series The West Wing, though thoughtful characterizations in such features as Girl, Interrupted and Imaginary Crimes have been a testament to an actress not afraid to court more challenging and emotionally demanding roles unusual for an actress of her age.Born to music manager and a mother who specialized in the blues harp in 1983, Moss spent her childhood in Los Angeles and was inspired to pursue acting at an early age by screen idol Bette Davis.
When put together (as here), they are overextended and too long by half, with many a dull stretch before the famous wirework action sequences finally kick in — although perhaps this will not prove too much of a challenge for the modern viewer who is a fan of, say, 2015's The Hateful Eight (with its similarly protracted pace and duration).
With layers of meaning, this offbeat documentary by James Franco and Travis Mathews (I Want Your Love) provokes viewers as we watch its ideas challenge the people who are on - screen.
The challenge of «Bitcoin,» written by Brent Craft, and other cryptocurrency films is parsing a complicated, opaque economic system so that viewers are at once educated and entertained.
The team, nickname: Comebacks, is rounded out by the odd cinematic allusion: iPod (Jermaine Williams), a leg - humping mentally - challenged assistant, blatantly spoofs Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s Radio persona, while an Indian girl kicker (Noureen DeWulf) pays homage to Bend It Like Beckham, a film that most viewers probably haven't seen.
The film challenges its viewer on many levels, perhaps being the reason why its been negatively and unfairly bombarded by critics, and audiences alike.
This has led to many recent societal embarrassments, across media forms devoured by viewers who want to keep analytical challenging out of their popular entertainment, but it especially shines in the unfortunate backlash against that upcoming, female - led «Ghostbusters» movie.
Through their stories, viewers gain insight into situations and challenges faced by immigrant students and their families.
Flower Power challenges the way society perceives and treats pit bulls by shortening the emotional distance between the viewer and these misunderstood dogs.
The former will let players challenge one another by displaying their avatars in each other's games, while the latter will let players stream level runs, as viewers vote on positive and negative ways of influencing the player's game.
As part of MTG's digital transformation, MTG Tech is constantly challenging the status quo by driving projects that enable viewers to experience content in new ways and on new platforms.
The collection challenged viewers with the beautiful and the bizarre in a wide range of paintings, sculptures, design pieces and photographs, all fluidly grouped by associations and themes.
From retrospec - tives of art legends to debuts by tomorrow's shining stars, these shows challenge viewers and excite artists, critics and collectors alike.
This work, a group of de - and reconstructed cats and dogs suspended from the ceiling by wires exemplifies Nauman's ability to place the audience off - balance, thus challenging the viewer's preconceptions.
A staple in art historical discussions of institutional critique, Lawler's photographs challenge the viewer to think about the context in which works of art are displayed, and subsequently the overlooked aesthetic choices made by the places in which they are viewed, sold, and stored.
In the confusing serenity of the space, encircled by glossy white surfaces, viewers are challenged to distance their minds from the imagery of the other exhibition galleries.
During the late 1970's, McCollum began to develop his central thesis; one which transforms the relationship between viewer and artwork, by challenging the producer / receiver dichotomy.
, a group exhibition curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody featuring works in various media by both well - known and emerging artists who work in the field of contemporary realism to visually or conceptually challenge the viewer.
The black paintings build in an obstacle by challenging most viewers» patience.
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.
Kline's small - scale rendition of a moving train draws the viewer into the painter's challenge as he tries to capture the essence of an object that defies, by its transformational movement, any such representation.
Inspired by Song dynasty painting techniques and calling on a generous worldview, Liang's creative process hints at her concern for articulating an alternative way of expressing the inexhaustible chaos of our world and challenges the viewer to restore order.
While attempting to incorporate text into his sculptures of the period, he was challenged to find a cohesive way of incorporating his voice into his commanding structures, and although he created numerous neon light works and installations, his sculpture evolved in a more conceptual direction, withholding information and requiring a complex response from the viewer by creating «uncomfortable spaces and shapes».
Challenging the viewer's patience, making him stunned by the complete absence of narrative, palette, or any other element that everybody was used to, Reinhardt explained that everything is on the move, so the art should be still.
Ultimately, this exhibition highlights the diversity of artistic practice within abstraction, while revealing intergenerational influences and allowing viewers to explore and be challenged by the depth and limits of abstraction.
Several women artists who are left out of this exhibition, such as Jenny Holzer or Adrian Piper, have challenged the commodification of text by reclaiming it as representational in contemporary art, often portraying direct, confrontational statements to viewers.
Together, they reveal an innovative artist whose style is distinguished by partial images, unexpected juxtapositions, harmonious collisions, and a dynamic modernist aesthetic that continues to inspire and challenge viewers today.
As the viewer moved from gallery to gallery, they were presented with a series of paintings and sculptures that aggressively challenge the very idea of portraiture, from Marsden Hartley's One Portrait of One Woman (the woman being Gertrude Stein, whose work was referenced multiple times in the show) to Glenn Ligon's moving and disturbing Runaway series from 1993 that juxtaposes images of runaway slaves with descriptions of Ligon written by his friends and colleagues.
In his piece, Formless Figure (2015) now on view in the main exhibition room at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, Arsham engages the viewer by challenging the very wall of the space to perform in a unique, mysterious way.
Jordan Kantor's enigmatic paintings seem to pose this question explicitly, by challenging viewers» expectations about the mediation of images...
Limiting the viewer perception by offering a single perspective to observe his interiors, Therrien challenges his audience to produce various versions of the real incident taking place.
By moving the sculptures off of the base and into the viewer's own physical and emotional space, Sonnier has also addressed a challenge that has concerned sculpture for most of the twentieth - century and beyond.
The angry provocateur who helped to forge a new identity for German painting after the Second World War is still taking risks; the painter who saw works from his first solo exhibition in 1963 confiscated by the authorities for their grotesque sexual imagery is still challenging the viewer.
His sculptural installations challenge perceptions of figurative art by removing the human figure from the viewer's day - to - day experience and re-positioning it within a controlled context.
It is hung densely, challenging the viewer to contemplate convergences and diversity in the works side by side.
By restricting his palette, tools, and scope, Fridge challenges both himself and the viewer with slow - moving abstract images and forms.
«Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power» will be on display at University Museum of Contemporary Art from Feb. 2 through April 30, bringing together 60 different works by artist Kara Walker designed to challenge viewers to create a dialogue around race and gender politics.
In Hicham Berrada's latest solo exhibition «Caverne», the Moroccan artist challenges viewers» senses by transforming a typical «white cube» gallery into a darkly mysterious garden of art.
Rather than solely addressing the figure in painting, Mothernism challenges Greenbergian ideals of «flatness» by inviting the viewer into her painting - as - installation, a figure / ground relationship so upended as to become participatory, or relational.
According to Benno Tempel, chairman of the international jury, «Sala succeeded the best in creating an installation where the viewer is constantly challenged by image, sound and movement.
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