Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visual Arts Center has completed a series of color slides to be projected onto the stage as part of the backdrop of "Il Combattimento...
...intellectual story of left-wing Spanish revolutionaries centered in Paris. Resnais has abandoned the strongly contrasting black-and-white tones of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Last Year At Marienbad" in favor of low-contrast greys which deliberately reduce the effect of the plot's melodramatic content. Although the visual construction is simpler than that of "Marienbad" and "Muriel," Resnais does insert short scenes which represent the imagination of the hero, a tired revolutionary played brilliantly by Yves Montand...
...glass faÇade would only allow the polyglot architecture of Madison Avenue to intrude, Breuer walled off his neighbors with concrete blinders and nearly solid walls. Controlled ventilation and artificial light may make windows obsolete, but lack of them has the drawback of inducing claustrophobia. To allow "visual contact with the outside," he added seven trapezoidal windows, including the largest on the front facade, which acts as both a signature and a beacon...
Forbes has used visual caricature for substance, near incompetents for actors, and vaudevillian stunts for wit. And even when he does manage to produce a fairly good scene (one brother trying to do the other in, or hearses racing through a band concert, or Queen Victoria decapitating instead of knighting, for example) there is always a want of directorial style that prevents the scene from being as good as it should...
...best works at the Rigelhaupt are by artists who ignore philosophy entirely and concentrate on visual effect. Though these works are technically complex, sketches show that every effect is carefully anticipated. Stephen Antonakos and Victor Millonzi play with the unique relationship between light and space embodied by neon. As Millonzi points out, "Light as sculptural mass can create forms that contain space and light instead of displacing it." Millonzi's work is a carefully balanced contrast between aluminum and flashing neon; first the angular volume of the metal dominates and then the spreading light. Antonakos' sculpture is more complex, with...