Word: visuality
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...artist, since I was a kid, but the impact that farming had was tremendous. It's a very sculptural activity. Not just dry stone walls but stacking bales - big minimalist sculptures, beautiful and enormous. Plowing a field is drawing lines on the land, painting the fields - it's incredibly visual. And the dead animals. When you're a farm kid you see death all the time. When you see spring lambs hopping around the fields and then go round the back of the farm, there's a pile of dead lambs every year - that's the way it is. Dogs...
...curved lines abut sharp edges, creating the illusion of depth. The deconstructed shapes that Léger uses are reminiscent of cubism, but the depth that is created sets his work apart from artists more traditionally associated with the movement. The exhibit is well constructed and provides an important visual diary of Léger’s artistic development without distracting the viewer with excess. The introductory text succinctly provides the necessary context for laypeople to understand the significance of the series. The second, retrospective-based room is a valuable addition that makes the exhibit more comprehensive and educational...
...April 13, has tried to rectify that situation, with some measure of success.“E-flux was an intervention that called attention to this medium that was supposed to be really cheap and easy to circulate,” says Carrie Lambert-Beatty, assistant professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and Architecture, who spearheaded the effort to bring the exhibit to Harvard. “Artists liked it in the ’70s because they weren’t considered precious objects.”The project contains approximately 700 works...
...like the thieving and Ultimate Fighting Champion-training LM Gazaniga (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Lake House”) and the entertainingly vulgar hardware store owner, Hesh (Judah Friedlander, “30 Rock”). The film’s strengths lie in its musical and visual trappings. Good costuming insured that each caricature-character looks the part, while the rhythm and blues-infused garage rock music by Stevie Salas and Dorian Heartsong captures the careless, rebellious, and dangerous energy of the film. The movie also intersperses shaky, close-up hand-camera shots with picturesque and still...
...example that they set.“It is important to realize that video game playing can have many effects on psychological processes, depending on the type of games people play,” writes Assistant Professor of Psychology Yuhong Jiang in an email. Although her work on visual cognition does not focus on video games, Jiang, who has committed to contribute to the Review, is interested in studies that have shown people who were trained to play video games develop a greater ability to ignore visual distractions.This poses the possibility of video games as tools of cognitive training...