Word: viewers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THOSE lines by the late Poet Wallace Stevens, Connecticut insuranceman, might have seemed sheer Mandarin to most of his clients-but not to a Chinese. Chinese painters ignore the iron bonds of perspective (which imply a stationary viewer and make the picture frame a sort of window frame) and strive instead for the stroller's leisurely view...
...invading army winds menacingly forward to the water's edge, a captain on a black horse prances into view, and a gnarled pine dips its obscuring wing. The detail further shows that Chinese scroll paintings can be enjoyed a little at a time, as was intended. Ideally, the viewer unrolled the scroll from his left hand, very slowly, while rolling it up again with his right. Thus the scroll should be read like music (but from right to left), with its themes and counterthemes, its unexpected accents and climaxes...
...from medieval manuscripts, and Praeger a compendium of ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES ($12.50). New York Graphic provides a large Henry Moore sketchbook of HEADS, FIGURES AND IDEAS at $30, and a handsome color survey of Pre-Hispanic Mexican painting at $18. Altogether, they are almost enough to make the armchair viewer feel pleasantly footsore...
Gwen Verdon plays the sexy siren, Lola, and now that she appears close up, it's easy to understand why she looked so much better from a distance in the musical. To the movie-viewer, Miss Verdon's lines are plain enough except for the aging ones, which remain well hidden until the last. And when she moves about, as she does so well, her facial makeup has a tendency to shift, giving her face an appearance not unlike that of lumpy oatmeal...
...squeezing his finger on the trigger when a Land Rover roars by and scares it away. Drat! To make matters worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice in the war cost Granger a portion of his leg, but the intrepid hunter has long since caught the scent of Steel's wife (Barbara Rush...