Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undeniably a powerful medium for the raising of social consciousness. Whether it be in theater, dance, music, or framed upon a wall, art captures the attention of a viewer fully and provides an excellent place to raise awareness of important issues. AIDS, in our age, is obviously an important issue...
...never settles for long on any style or viewpoint, and it arrives at no dramatic conclusion. In other words, it is a lot like ordinary life, which accounts for its occasional charms. But it is never much like a movie, which accounts for its failure to sustain the viewer's attention...
...vistas were highly edited pastiches, ecological anthologies. But this enhanced their power for the 19th century viewer, who wanted epitomes of nature, filled with moral messages. These Church supplied in abundance. He never actually saw his volcano erupt -- it did so on Sept. 13, 1853, three days after he left the area -- but when he painted Cotopaxi in 1862 in full eruption, he could not have left much doubt that this scene also held a lesson for an America plunged into hatred and despair by the Civil War. The morning sun rises through the plume of smoke and ash, irresistibly...