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...also brings out more nuanced aspects of the film. Simplifying the image underscores the grandeur of the movements filmed; there is something epic about the way a flowing line of horses stretch across the screen, creating a continuous sienna strip. At times, the image is reminiscent of early impressionist painting??Turner comes to mind. With the loss of image clarity comes an exciting development. The works in Lossless come out of the destruction of existing film, but they may be equally viewed as forays into a new medium. The serial titles connect the installations to the exhibition...
...this collection is that it’s corrective to that perception.” The paintings merge traditional style and the contemporary events in a compelling fashion. Liu Guosong created “High Noon” (1969) after seeing photos of the 1968 Apollo 8 mission. The painting??s unusual rhomboidal format frames and intensifies his graphic shapes and bold colors. “Wintry Mountains” is another of Gusong’s exceptional works. Simple shapes form the jagged stone face of a mountain peak brushed with white snow. Gusong uses an unusual...
Inconspicuously displayed in “Overlapping Realms: Arts of the Islamic World and India 900-1900,” the six paintings and three books that make up the sub-section called “On the Path of Madness: Representations of Majnun in Persian, Turkish, and Indian Painting?? are more important in Islamic literature than their small number implies.This new exhibit is organized by Mary McWilliams, the Calderwood curator of Islamic and later Indian art, and Sunil Sharma, a senior lecturer at Boston University, and will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum until...
...only to begin again when Matter returned to the East Coast. Pollock sent an early drip painting to the Matters as a belated wedding present.Although these events may have been mere coincidences, the visual evidence strongly suggests that the genesis of the “death of the easel painting?? owes much to Matter.In the final room of the show, the controversial paintings themselves are relatively small. Falling in what is described as “the inner realm” of size for Pollock paintings, most are not much larger than a piece of 8.5x11-inch...
...It’s like a great painting??it’s like talking about what the Mona Lisa’s smiling about,” said Lou Sideris, chief of planning and communication at Minute Man National Historical Park. “Everyone’s going to filter it through their own beliefs. It's part of American folklore, and it always will...