Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MIDWESTERN wheatfield, a small sandy-haired boy plays baseball with his father. Reaching into the air to catch a fly ball, he disappears into the rippling sunflecked wheat, emerging victoriously with the ball in his mitt. This visual image opens director Barry Levinson's new film, The Natural, and initiates the almost mythical tale of one man's legendary baseball career...
...like the theater much," says Wilson, who has been challenging conventional notions of what constitutes the genre for 15 years. "But I love the abstract, fluttering visual patterns of ballet, and I think that is basically what I've done in theater: architectural landscapes that are structured...
Baldly summarized, Wilson's work can sound arbitrary and pretentious. But far from being a melange of odds and sods, the CIVIL warS is a tightly knit, carefully planned work that uses visual, verbal and musical images the way Wagner used leitmotivs: to unify and clarify complex relationships among ideas and to weave of his various strands a single tapestry. The tree of the first "knee play" is transformed into the astronauts' ladder and finally into the oaken Lincoln of the last act. The detritus of war - the toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city...
These computers would be able to lighten tasks such as comparing large volumes of economic figures or analyzing visual scenes that normal computers find laborious...
...amateur, Adams once wrote, photography is a "visual diary system." His more than a half-century of work recorded no events, captured no history. It was instead a kind of elegant unworded poetry whose lexicon consisted of mountains and trees, water and stone, the play of light and shadow. In a work like Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, probably his most famed single image, Adams' camera revealed the spiritual still point of a turning world. The heart of his own spiritual world was Yosemite National Park, a place he visited in his work and imagination over and over again...