Essentially a line of vitality and energy that seems to assert the mystery of existence and the dynamism of life, its unassailable verticality in the midst of vast field of color often sparks a mystical connection with the verticality of
viewer standing in front of the painting.
There are times when passive learning can be wonderful, for instance, when
a viewer stands in front of a painting and gloriously lets it wash over him or her, immersed in a flow of sensations.
«But if
the viewers stand in front of my work and find thought processes, or some kind of tenderness, a sense of delicate fragility — not only the simple expression of emotions of youth and roughness — I believe it is due to the music I listened to before I met punk.»
Not exact matches
aaaaaan then by historical account, after the disciples left their homes, gave all they had and hung out with poor people «to keep their good economic
standing,» cried
in joy from beatings because they could serve Christ and not the world, and all
of the twelve but one were beaten thoroughly and executed, becuase the one who lived was placed
in boiling oil and WOULD NOT DIE
in front of thousands
of viewers... «tooooo keep their «good economic
standing?»»
Sorry, Mr Hooper, 3 musical solos back to back all shot as if the
viewer is
standing 10 inches
in front of the performer does not make for interesting cinema.
Standing in front of it, as far as the eye can see, the
viewer is confronted with a myriad
of dots that appear to vibrate elaborately through an optical effect.
While
standing in front of the images, some
viewers synchronously googling «guerrilla girls» on their smartphones, a strange feeling
of occult timelessness set
in.
Standing in front of Aqueous / Igneous I find myself engaged
in Theatre, where perception directs movement, an exchange
of energy between the
viewer and the performance
of paint.
The artist, however, does not give us much
of a hint
of the museum setting — no visitors are
standing about, no reflection
of the diorama's glass
front is visible — and so the
viewer is lured into creating a narrative
in a manner similar to the one induced by Crewdson though perhaps not quite as eerie.
Collectively, the works portray a tantalizing range
of patterns and surfaces; they are often installed directly
in relation to the architecture
in which they are exhibited
in order to purposively propel the direction
of the
viewer's movement
in space, so that the paintings themselves address the
viewer when they are both
standing in front of them and passing by.
Ideally, the
viewer would
stand in front of his paintings, focusing on large fields
of color and abstract forms, and come to terms with the self and his or her own scale.
Sculpture, painting, installation, sound and the spoken word all attempt to heighten and question the experience
of what it means to
stand in front of something that has been made with the express intention
of supporting, qualifying or glorifying an ideal
of authority, placing its
viewer under a state
of subordination.
As has been widely reported, Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket (2016) was immediately challenged by protestors who
stood in front of it to block
viewers» access along with a call to remove and destroy it.2 At issue is the appropriation by this white painter
of the photo
of the lynched - body
of the black boy, Emmett Till, taken at his open - casket funeral held
in Mississippi
in 1955.
The work, by physically reflecting
viewers in the mirror once
standing in front of it, forces an active engagement with the sculpture and elicits a reflection about the
viewers» «position» towards these issues.
The
viewers stand as if on a ramp
in front of Schnell's paintings, imaginarily just about to plunge into the picture.
Nothing that would make the
viewer to
stand for minutes and minutes
in front of the painting trying to solve and understand its mystery.
The glass appears black until the
viewer stands directly
in front of the boxes resulting into an uncannily voyeuristic 3D view onto scenes where either something dreadful has just happened or is about to commence.
Thomas Judisch «As the
viewer you
stand there,
in front of it or
in it, irritated and first have to collect yourself.
Rail: So the
viewer who walks from either side sees the painting, but if he or she
stands directly
in front of it they see it almost like a Barnett Newman zip.