Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today: Ryder, Homer and Eakins. Ryder saw life as something of a dream, Homer as a struggle, and Eakins as a solemn commitment. Each pictured it as he saw it, with complete integrity, so their works are as different as morning, noon and night. Yet each can make the viewer exclaim, "IVe seen that!" Their strong recognition value bespeaks a reverence for reality common to all three...
...exactly what he will hear when he takes the disks home (buying has actually been cut down by a phonograph playing samples in the store) but the riotously colorful jackets are enough to make sales soar. Packaging and merchandising are fancy and getting fancier-Cellophane windows, stereoscopic pictures with viewer, picture books with sound cues on accompanying records for turning pages. But the tunes that go into the grooves have shown no basic development since Polly Put the Kettle...
Whether or not the viewer understands all that there is to see when he first comes upon a Shahn canvas, at least he is not put off by it. He knows for example that there is a man lying on the beach in "pacific Landscape." He may wonder why the man is such a small part of the picture, he may not at first appreciate the significance of the aesthetic unbalance. But there are many levels upon which Shahn is working to portray this figure of man washed upon the shore denuded of humanity and life as if he were...
Richier rejects the suggestion her work is morbid. Says she: "I merely try to see below the surface of things." As an example she points to Tauromachy (see opposite), in which the sculptress has interposed a preview of destiny between the viewer and the bullfighter enjoying his moment of triumph. Explains Richier: "He killed the bull, but he knows he too is going to die some day." By taking her inspiration from the forms the clay suggests as she works, Germaine Richier has opened the door to subconscious promptings which French critics find "disturbing, irritating, but teeming with life...
...five hours of color weekly. Yet even in Chicago, where 38.3 hours of color a week sparkle out from the first U.S. "all-color" station (WNBQ), not more than 5,000 sets are in operation. The prevailing U.S. apathy to tinted TV was echoed last week by an idle viewer at Rich's department store in Atlanta. "I know the grass is green at Ebbets Field," he said. "It isn't worth $400 more to find out how green...