Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson uses Pauline's diaries to conture up the patchwork of reality and fantasy worlds this plot inhabits. The viewer is bombarded by a succession of distorted scenarios--a grainy old film-strip of Christchurch, the Claymation-type animation of Pauline and Juliet's invented alter egos, the "Fourth World" they imagine as their private paradise and the dubious authenticity of mid-century New Zealand. Which world are we supposed to believe in? The extremely exaggerated reaction of Pauline and Juliet to any situation seems to fit the various levels of fantasy existence better than it fits the cramped confines...
Many critics place Kieslowski at the very apex of modern filmmakers. That's wrong, but he certainly forces audiences to do something they are rarely asked to: look at movies. To name your film Red guarantees that the viewer will be as alert as a traffic cop to the color scheme -- to the red telephone, awning, sweater, and so on. Kieslowski has a fashion photographer's showy sense of pictorial alienation. He'll isolate Valentine (as in Valentine's Day, heart, red; get it?) in a corner of the film frame or pose her in an attitude of anxious ennui...
...himself) depicting Harvard Yard as it appeared in 1767. Portraits of Presidents Holyoke and Lowell seated in the same President's chair which might torture Acting President Albert Carnesale next June hang uneasily behind the malignant-looking seat itself. The representations, paired with the object, and distanced from the viewer by a pane of glass like anthropological objects, call into question our acceptance of the ceremonies around...
...almost schitzophrenically diverse exhibition moves through a rust-colored room of densely packed works. Each is accompanied by a careful explanation from a social, historical or stylistic perspective. Every work demands the viewer's attention and thought by itself, and in concert with the works surrounding it. In the fever of all these ideas lurk the artistic gems of the collection: three paintings which need no explanation...
...cultural artifacts, yet carry themselves with the solitary dignity of true masterpieces. There is a rising debate in American museums about the validity of hanging art on flat rectangular white walls. Yet these walls, after the chaos of the rest of the exhibit, establish a connection between art and viewer which is difficult to dispute...