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...sculpture allows a viewer to see what is normally private, inside," Echelman said. "It brings the viewer into direct physical contact with the sculpture...
James A. Johnson '01 compared the viewer's first impression of the immensity of the sculpture to the AIDS epidemic. He said the porous nature of the material used in the sculpture is similar to the possibility that the AIDS virus is vulnerable and can be defeated...
...this style to the masses was that, for the first time, everyday people saw artwork in which their life was replicated. Print artists recorded familiar scenes in extreme detail. The market place, the country landscape, the butcher's meat market all are recorded with such accuracy that the viewer's mind dizzies at the intricacy with which lines are drawn. The prints were also used in order to display political or social allegories, much like the political cartoons of today's newspapers. All in all, the French world was thrilled to finally have an artistic movement that encapsulated them...
...dramatic because of the contrast given to points of the artist's interest, and the everyday scenes are all recorded in concise detail. What all of these themes possess as motif are their underlying static feeling. These prints are immobile; the figures in them are frozen. Today, a viewer cannot relate to these scenes of the past through the mind and eyes of a 16th century village person, therefore, there is no dynamic between...
...exception to this immobility is in the religious section of the gallery. Here, the most famous printmakers of the time have shown the viewer that it is possible to incorporate some fluidity into printmaking. The artists in this section exercise particularly difficult printmaking techniques, my personal favorite being the head of Jesus, which is made up entirely of concentric lines all relating to one recurring middle point, from which the circles emanate. The more famous artists were able to give this separate life to the print through a mixture of increased technical difficulty and uniqueness in perspective...