Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exceptions in Gods and Monsters, namely Whale's dreams and flashbacks. The former have him in his own movies, playing the Doctor Frankenstein to Boone's Monster and vice versa. Shot in retrospective monochrome, the film here manages to capture the beauty of Whale's movies without distracting the viewer from the matter at hand--Whale and Boone's increasingly complex relationship. Similarly, the flashbacks to the war, and to Whale's wistful memories of "love in the foxholes," are masterfully done. Alas, these all have the ulterior motive of emphasizing the film's already overweighted point: that gods...
...Hubbuch's drypoint, profile portrait of The Schaefer Sisters shows the ugly sister fastening a necklace around her prettier sister's neck. The sisters are ably sketched, but their averted gaze, their isolation on otherwise white paper, and the blunt utility of Hubbuch's composition combine to give the viewer a queer sense of detachment, which prevents wholehearted admiration while simultaneously intensifying the clarity of appreciation. Like most of the other drawings and photographs exhibited at the Busch, The Schaefer Sisters "clicks" for the viewer just as later Abstract Expressionist pieces "click"; unlike abstract images, however, the presence...
...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...
...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...