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...combined his life-long passion for art with the field of cellular biology to help develop a computer-generated animation that explains the functioning of a cell...
...Agnes Martin’s minimalist paintings to commenting on a wooden carving in the shape of two figures–“this artist was probably self-taught, probably a father’s gift to a son,”—Lue explains his passion for all types of “immediate personal expression....It’s another form of communication. It’s a way that can be indirect but even more powerful...
...corollary of gravity and seriousness… There is increasingly a choreography of violence, a way of aestheticizing it, that makes it more acceptable and worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence’ and forget to explain the motivation or relevance for the violence...
...both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn’t become skeptical or alienated when body parts start to fly. Gibson’s revisionist take on history is too fanciful to give “Apocalypto” or “The Passion of the Christ” the same firm grounding...
...puts it, “She has very strong convictions and she’s not afraid to advance the causes in which she believes.” And even if most Harvard students won’t share those convictions, they can appreciate the passion with which she’ll fight for them...