With a giant god like hand, Whedon destroys
viewer expectation by carefully crafting the perfect satire film with a wit, intelligence and depth that is often lacking in the films it makes fun of.
Not exact matches
The hearer, as with the
viewer of a picture, has the edges of his attention gathered up and focused
by the clear sense of being personally addressed with a definite
expectation of some kind of response.
The story behind the naming of the hit TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm is that it was a reaction
by creator, Larry David, against the many people who lived their lives projecting false enthusiasm and also to urge
viewers not to raise their
expectations too high.
Still, it aims low for a film that seeks to make superstars out of its performers, and doesn't succeed even in its limited aspirations, such that perhaps From Justin to Kelly actually benefits from its perpetual critical derision, as only the very lowest of
expectations can have
viewers feeling pleasantly surprised
by the miniscule returns in entertainment the film provides.
Viewers, of course, can still enjoy the show — if only to admire Dean Norris» hiss - inducing and campy performance as the town's mayor, Big Jim —
by adjusting their
expectations.
It may get
by without regularly producing winces, but it eventually must undo itself with questionable actions and the unenviable task of trying to dance around
expectations while still leaving
viewers fulfilled.
Often using the figurative form as a base, she subverts the
viewers»
expectations by implementing several textures, patterns, and materials.
It is in this collaboration that Gortner draws his boundaries, asking the
viewer to suspend traditional
expectations of art making (i.e. that each painting should be «original» and authored in its totality
by one artist) and instead consider how this connectivity to the past and present expresses a new authenticity and content ownership.
It is in this collaboration that Gortner draws his boundaries, asking the
viewer to suspend traditional
expectations of art making (that each painting should be original and authored in its totality
by one artist) and instead consider how collaboration - whether blind or solicited - expresses a new authenticity and content ownership.
The
expectation is, of course, that
viewers follow the instructions on the paper — implementing themselves within the piece, out of free will or
by instruction, depending on how we choose to interpret Nauman's authority.
Jordan Kantor's enigmatic paintings seem to pose this question explicitly,
by challenging
viewers»
expectations about the mediation of images...
The artist strives for the feeling of both the stone and the essence of the subject, which «shakes up the
expectations of the
viewer»
by forcing them to reconcile the inanimate material with the
viewer's living memory of that object.
Be it videos, works on paper or installations, his work, exemplary of post-conceptual strategy, plays with the
viewer's
expectation by a free use of common cultural codes such as the teaser borrowed from cinema's industry: Coming Soon.
The resulting paintings, often presented as a suite or installation, evoke a physiological response
by the
viewer, whose recognition of the material triggers an internal
expectation of sound.
«In all of my work, I'm interested in exploiting the tension between «observed» and «abstract,» and similarly, I enjoy playing with the
expectation of reality
by inventing where the
viewer may not expect invention,» Cole explains, «My paintings are at once rooted in the unique experiences of my own life in Brooklyn, and in conversation with the larger history of American painting.
By presenting these stories, Kingstone subverts some
expectations viewers might have about the subjects of his videos, positioning them more as individuals than types.
Embodying Manual Digital's focus on interlocking geometries and the existing tension between the artists» hand and technological precision, these artists cleverly upend
viewer's
expectations on the type of art influenced
by modern technology.
Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which
viewers»
expectations are breached
by dreamlike intruders.
Presiding over the gallery is Self - Portrait: Blue Beard (1996)
by Del LaGrace Volcano, a photographic self - portrait that defies
viewers» assumptions and
expectations about gender performance and expression.
Expectations of engagement
by the
viewer post-performance, thus become dictated
by the media through which the works are presented, serving to make the record fundamental in establishing the future experience of the work.