"To move the viewer" means to have a strong emotional impact or to deeply touch someone's feelings while watching something, such as a movie, artwork, or performance. It aims to evoke strong emotions like happiness, sadness, empathy, or inspiration in the person experiencing it.
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This is a driving force behind effective movie and video game trailers, to evoke an emotional response that ultimately
moves the viewer into action.
The conclusion that the possible is the actual will, I hope,
move viewers past dismissal of my world and toward engagement with it.
Flowers, trees, and landscapes such as lakes are depicted vividly through the artist's emotion,
moving the viewer into active experiences beyond the mere act of looking.
There's a lot of seduction in Gonzalez - Torres's work — the idea of
moving the viewer through the space, suggesting different actions to take.
A beautifully shot, measured movie that never really builds up enough sympathy for Lautrec to
really move viewers.
In other words,
games move the viewer from the position of spectator to that of participant in the media experience.
But I am most interested in the way the objects may or may
not move the viewer to think about the subject matter than I am with labeling them a particular medium.»
Beginning with loose references to flora and fauna, Sausele - Knodt creates shaped paintings that
deftly move the viewer through a series of shifting and fragmented picture planes.
The Washington Color School artists used geometric arrangements in all - over compositions to explore how
color moves the viewer rhythmically across a canvas.
Described as a deeply passionate person by contemporaries such as Nicholas Serota, it is no wonder Hodgkin transformed his experiences into coherent physical objects that contain an evanescent and emotional sense of realism, with which he would
rather move the viewer than convey the nature of an extract from his life.
Illuminating the subconscious and blending scale with mythology, painter Farrell Brickhouse finds the ultimate way to
move viewers with his new solo exhibition.
For the past 35 years, Presman has created conceptually based installations
which move the viewer to re-examine contemporary notions of history and pre-history, as well as to challenge contemporary speculation of what our future holds.
It's natural to want to slow down and spend time with this work, even as its form implies a procession to
move the viewer along.
The desire to
move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of 20th century art.
James Wan has managed to craft a cinematic experience that manages to both terrify and
emotionally move the viewer, and the film remains one of my personal favorites of 2016 thus far!
Together Efflux's components offer a metaphor for evolution -
moving the viewer through creation, existence, and eventual destruction.»
Rather than fancy camera work, he relies on powerful framing and the story itself to
move viewers.
James Wan has crafted a cinematic experience that manages to both terrify and emotionally
move the viewer.
A book trailer is essentially a mini commercial much like a movie trailer, that captures the tone and message of the book,
moving viewers to become book buyers.
I would like to think of my sculptures and installations as something that
moves the viewer, the colors of my work are the colors in my brain, in my dreams, in my imagination.
Arranged to
move the viewer through them and through the space surrounding them, the installation comprises the following pieces: «Torqued Spiral (Closed Open Closed Open Closed)», «Torqued Ellipse», «Double Torqued Ellipse», «Torqued Spiral (Right Left)», «Torqued Spiral (Open Left Closed Right)», «Between the Torus and the Sphere» and «Blind Spot Reversed».
There is always a centre of gravity in his paintings that
moves the viewer and invites him or her to follow the line of the brush.
Winegar's tonalist landscapes are meant to beautify the world and
move the viewer.
For this work, she has created an elaborate wall painting which utilizes patterning, repetition and optical illusion to
move the viewer's eye about the room.
Royal Veil, 1971 provides a sizeable example of howDavis created rhythm and tension through the irregular repetition of purple, teal, and orange stripes that
move the viewer's eyes back and force across the balanced composition.
The artists whose work principally addresses painterly issues — Emily Berger, Hovey Brock, and Karen Nielsen - Fried — all rely to a greater or lesser degree on the illusion of space to
move the viewer's experience of color in their work beyond the simply decorative.
Norman believed that by bearing witness to cruelty and oppression in his paintings, he might
move his viewers to consider their own role in systems of power.
He frequently shoots the most simple scenes, yet each image tells a deeper story and
moves the viewer to feel something.
She aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer, tapping into our deeply entrenched relationship with colour, and exploring how it can
move viewers, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
In his artist statement, Williams says his «art is a narrative, visual poetry, making a social statement to
move the viewer to action or realization.»
The work of art links the daily to the sublime; or, in Martin's terms, by engaging and
moving the viewer, art can reveal the basic perfection.
Deeply inspired by energy, the works are meant to
move the viewer.
The voices will be choreographed to
move the viewer through the space, resting in moments to listen, or to return to complete the chapter.
It is no easy thing to move from this systematic «distribution of elements on a grid» to the kind of painting that
moves viewers.
It struck me how you related this architectural and curatorial context to
a moving viewer navigating multiple screens in a contemporary museum space.
Perhaps the greatest similarity between Gustavsson and Love's show and Fogel's new installation at JTT is the way
they move viewers through space, allowing them to become a part of the work, whether they like it or not.
We're creating videos that get found, watched, and
move the viewer emotionally into action!