Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that several key performers seem to have a hard time remaining engaged and focused throughout the play's duration. But the atmospheric effects are intriguing, the lyricism and symbolism of the text moving and the subject matter utterly fascinating. Its attractions make Crystal Boys worth seeing, especially if the viewer has an interest in exploring a world that seems both familiar and previously unimagined. But for those more patient with prose than drama, perhaps the best way to catch the text's lyrical beauty would be to read Pai Hsienyung's novel...
...frustration for the viewer comes when scenes open in the middle of conversations that are never fully explained. Then they close without resolving the issues raised in the scene. There's an urge to suddenly jump out of one's seat and yell, "What is going on? I don't understand what you're talking about!" Mamet also seems to expect prior knowledge and intelligence from his audience. The first act involves the history of the Jews that I would not have understood unless I had luckily taken Foreign Cultures 56: "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Before 1914" this semester...
...extremely large scale of Lichtenstein's paintings furthers this effect. Their expansive area inscribes the viewer in a spatial relationship that mirrors the tiny scale of the figures in the Chinese paintings' infinite landscapes. Just as the miniature men are almost lost within the Song paintings, we are literally dwarfed by the immense scale of Lichtenstein's work and can never really hold the entire image in our visual field. Only by backing up as far as the gallery allows can we get a good look at the whole composition, but Lichtenstein jokes that we can never really possess nature...
...tiled courtyard of the entrance to the MFA's featured spring exhibition, "Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting," the viewer confronts two magisterial images. On the left is an unusual dark brown stone, known as a scholar's rock, valued in Chinese artistic tradition for its elegant natural form and its power to render the viewer's glance into a contemplative, even mystical gaze. On the right stands a wide stone relief of the serene Buddha with his attendant Bodhisattvas: enlightened beings destined to help the Buddha's followers reach Nirvana, on either side...
...range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with their historical importance but also with their delicate and subtle rendering of volume, depth and material detail...