Word: visual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...student artwork at the Carpenter Center, left me yearning for resolution. “Double Hung I” intriguingly dangles conceptual ideas within viewers’ realm of understanding, but refuses easy answers. The exhibition displays a remarkable variety of media. Showcasing 18 works selected from undergraduate Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) classes, the exhibition includes works in oil paint, graphite, cardboard, Plexiglas, animation, and film. Department faculty selected the pieces, which present a smorgasbord of styles, from the precision of “The Couple/A drawing by a couple with two hands” by Margot...
...obtain video art. Having traveled to Amsterdam, Seoul, and Miami, among other cities, the E-flux Video Rental (EVR) project is now making its final stop at Harvard. EVR is an installation of video art compiled and selected by respected curators from the world over. According to the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) website, the program is “an intervention in the circulation and distribution of artists’ video.” It began as a way to broaden the audience for this particular medium and to make video art more accessible.Video art developed in the 1960s...
...Fans also let out an audible gasp when Cuse revealed after the screening that a revelatory anagram appeared in the episode, one that went undetected by most of the audience. Cuse acknowledged that he and the writers often place small—but significant—visual clues in many of the episodes in order to keep viewers guessing. “Pretty much every element has been unearthed, because people know to watch the show carefully,” Cuse said.MYSTERIOUS ORIGINSCuse, who was born in Mexico City and spent time growing up in Orange County, Calif. and Boston...
...arts are not created equal.These days, if you want to be a successful artist, chances are you’ll want to be a visual artist and not a poet. If you happen to make it big as a painter, you might just auction off something for half a million at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. Making it big as a poet means you might sell about 50,000 copies. “And let’s assume the writer makes a dollar a book,” adds Emily K. Vasiliauskas...
...akin to the argument that tries to make movies art by defining them as pictures seen on a wall (museum pieces) rather than illustrated stories. Yet Ingmar Bergman and Preston Sturges, to name just two great "directors," are primarily not visual stylists but writers. Similarly, Kurtzman and Spiegelman are remarkable less for their draftsmanship than for conjuring a world and giving it narrative shape, density and bite. You don't see their work so much as you read...