Sentences with phrase «role of the viewer»

It also identified with new scientific understandings of how the brain controls vision and the essential role of the viewer in experiencing a painting.

Dan Graham, (born March 31, 1942, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.), American artist whose work addressed such notions as the dual role of the viewer (or audience) as both perceiver and perceived.

Working contemporaneously to such continental Op artists as Victor Vasarely and Julio Le Parc, Riley was included in the landmark exhibition «The Responsive Eye» at MoMA in 1965, which emphasised the active role of the viewer and the potential slipperiness of seemingly objective geometric forms.

Dan Graham, American artist whose work addressed such notions as the dual role of the viewer (or audience) as both perceiver and perceived.

When, in one of the first scenes of the film, they sit in a concert audience looking straight at us, they are effectively reversing the role of viewer and performer, and directly inviting us into their narrative.

More than other formal elements in the visual arts — such as color, line, or shape — scale directs attention towards the capacity of the artwork to respond to a specific location and call into play the role of the viewer.

By symbolically portraying the gallery space as a talking vehicle, Baghramian evinces the importance of the venue — not only as a locus of idea generation, but also as a conduit that signifies the role of the viewer as a conveyor of ideas into the outside world.

Nairy Baghramian: You could also add to that list: post-feminism, abstraction, surrealism, the role of the viewer in institutional critique, site - specificity, post-modernism and so on.

How is the role of the viewer elevated and placed into the centre uniquely?

A similar question or concept can be applied to Bridget Riley's Stripe Paintings and the role of the viewer.

Her digitally animated works make use of the interplay between actual space and illusionistic space, creating environments in which the roles of the viewer and the object become blurred.

[23] In 1934, the Belgian painter René Magritte (1898 — 1967) paid tribute in his work The Human Condition, which directly echoes motifs from Friedrich's art in its questioning of perception and the role of the viewer.

Throughout his latest works, Bader plays upon the dynamic between artist, artwork, and viewer — foregrounding the role of the viewer or buyer in making meaning.

Always working in the tight, poetic spaces between documentary and fantasy, public and private space, this latest exhibition from Chodzko seeks to engage reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer, making an excitingly relevant statement that helps mark the first anniversary of the Marlborough Contemporary with impressive impact.

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The Web is an immersive installation that addresses the significance of the Internet and mobile devices in our lives while simultaneously examining the role of the viewer.

This painting's unusual point of view questions the role of the viewer and who is looking at whom.

She plays with the relationship between the artist and the muse and the role of the viewer.

Chodzko operates in the tight, poetic spaces between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism, public and private space, often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer.

A collaboration between two artists, Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, and a critic and curator, Lawrence Alloway, the show was simultaneously an investigation into abstract environmental forms and a participatory experiment that would fundamentally transform the role of the viewer.