Instead, the unconventional emerges as a powerful statement and his attitude of rebellion becomes a refreshing break from tradition reaching out to
alter viewer expectations.
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.
Although Drinking Buddies starts out looking like a traditional rom - com, Swanberg quickly
subverts viewer expectations, resulting in a film that is romantic but surprisingly devoid of sap, funny without falling back on cheap gags.
The film subtly
complicates viewer expectations early on, eschewing clear - cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations.
Both of the presumed frontrunners feel like challengers: The Shape of Water, with its offbeat fantasy, sudden violence, and, um, interspecies sex; and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which delights in
confounding viewer expectations and has endured controversies about an ill - conceived racial subplot.
Viewer association may propel the interior spaces and anthropological evidence that inhabit Hughes» canvases, or her milieu may
propel viewer expectations with a jolt of the uncanny.
In response to Daniel von Sturmer's solo show: Set Pieces, students from St. Bernard's School, Rotherham,
explored viewer expectation and perception through syncing mismatched sound and video.
For the seventh and current iteration of the Andy Warhol Museum's Exposures series [previously, The Glassblock profiled Zhiwan Cheung], Adam Milner's installation Remains plays with relationships — the interplay between objects, the similarities between two personal collections, and the role of the museum in
guiding viewer expectation and reaction.
Each of the 7 exhibiting artists takes a candid, probing approach to their chosen medium, unpacking its art historical framework, examining precedent artistic strategies, and
subverting viewer expectations.
From the Keatonesque pratfalls of Sharyar Nashat's film Modern Body Comedy, 2006, to Lucy Skaer's filmic portrayal of an encounter with the elderly Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, Leonora (The Joker), 2006, the language of cinema as the least faithful art form recurs here in the exhibition in the cinematic ability to frame and repeat heightened moments, inverting dramatic tension and revealing illusion and
viewer expectations.
Approaching to the topic from various angles, artworks on view respond to unsuccessfulness through different channels, among which are
viewer expectation, emotional investment, and risk taking.
Offering a platform to survey the relationship between the artist, the artwork and the audience; failure suggests a study on artistic drive, contextual meaning, and
viewer expectation.