Sentences with phrase «sustain viewer attention»

As inviting and professional as the film looks, its plot is far too episodic to sustain viewer attention; for every brief oasis of energy, there's a barren wasteland of 20 minutes through which the audience must trudge.

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There is, as such, little doubt that one's interest in V.I. Warshawski is almost entirely dependent on one's tolerance for Turner's work, as the film is otherwise devoid of elements designed to capture and sustain the viewer's ongoing attention.

Trier relies on this intrigue to sustain the viewer's attention over 120 minutes.

Made over long stretches of time, her canvases embody the durational activity of painting itself and invite the viewer's sustained attention: these, as the artist herself has noted, are «paintings that you experience.»

His paintings» continual slipping between these modes demands sustained attention from each viewer of each canvas, making it difficult to hang them together in a coherent narrative or group.

Reviewing the latter exhibition in Artforum's October 2003 issue, art historian Michael Lobel noted that «the large scale of much of Rosenquist's work was initially intended to offer the viewer some critical perspective on commercial imagery by calling attention to its numbing blankness,» and that «the hallmarks of Rosenquist's mature style — the slick rendering, the vibrant Pop colors, the sustained attention to the surfaces of commodity objects ---- are brought together to imbue [his smaller] works with an uncanny psychological resonance.»