Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat dry ideas of the Bauhaus and suffuse them with new life-the life of shifting perspectives, vibrant color harmonies and weighted geometric shapes. The deep, rich tonalities of such paintings as Chom and Axo-77, for which he often credits Hungarian folklore, are designed to give the viewer a sense of balance and wellbeing. In other works, like Ond-JG, the illusion of bulging forms acts as a magnetic force pulling the viewer into the painting...
Thanks to Clement's superb sense of mood and control, the film skips along so briskly that the viewer forgets that two hours is a long time to spend watching an ancient contrivance complete with a menacing stranger, misleading extra corpses and mixed handbags of loot...
...character that he or she is portraying. That now-familiar device stems from what Brecht called the V-Effekt: estranging the audience from the action. Merely watching, say Brecht and Bergman, is not enough. Reality has rent the artist's fabric; now he forces it to pierce the viewer's mind...
...Sure, but the problem is that many directors would approach Beckett doing that and limiting the production, limiting what the philosophical views are for the viewer...
Agam's art, in one sense, is intended to disturb. "This is a living wall," he insists. "Like reality, it is changing, disappearing, ever present. Its impact comes from its attempt to accept change." Looking at a wall from one angle, for example, the viewer sees an overall pattern of black and white; then from a different perspective it seems to explode in dozens of bright hues. Sometimes the scheme is a bold arrangement of pop colors. Turn around and it is all delicate pastels...