Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their work, after all, was precisely what the founders of modern art - Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Matisse " - had set themselves against: | pompier realism, with its gleaners, nuns and goosegirls, its moralizing illusionism, heavy sentiment and lentil-soup colors. It was "photo graphic" - a single word, damnation enough. But in 1 98 1 taste in such matters has not merely shifted, it has come full circle. The exhibition now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900," would not even have been attempted by an American museum 15 years ago; the subject...
...probably ruled in the 6th century; tales of his exploits developed, from oral history to moral imperative, over the next thousand years. No visual style could capture his moment with historical accuracy. What is needed-and what Boorman and Production Designer Anthony Pratt deliver -is a ripe and consistent graphic vision. Excalibur is the handsomest film since Terence Malick's Days of Heaven, and is as alive to the subtle textures of earth, water and sky. The land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that will give Arthur his power...
...Mike was in on the early conceptual designs that brought our systems together in a color-graphic display," James R. Bonner, manager for telemetry and data systems at Pan Am, said yesterday...
Halem said four of his systems that will play an integral role in Columbia's first 17 minutes of flight. One is a computer color graphic display inside the T-38 chase planes, vehicles used to photograph the lift-off and aid the shuttle's pilots in chase of emergency. The display will inform the chase pilots of the shuttle's location and transmit vector information to them in a situation that would require their intervention...
...Halem's color graphic terminals "is designed to play information from the shuttle in a format that is easiest for the ground controller to read," he said. If either the shuttle or the fuel tanks go astray and threaten to land in populated areas, "my display will light up and warn the controllers" who may then elect to destroy them, he added...