Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such lofty, light and airy abstractions, the tower's inventor believes, would be a great and welcome change from the traditional bronze men on horseback, men in capes, and men thinking, chin in hand. But Sculptor Nicolas Schoffer, 43, does not stop at purely visual effects. He got a composer friend to extract a musical tone from each plaque on his tower (by banging or rubbing each one separately) and record the sounds together on tape. Then he persuaded an engineer to build an electronic "brain" for the tower which "plays" the tones according to the effects of light...
...replacements for their own comedy hours. In the Gleason spot was CBS's America's Greatest Bands (Sat. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), which presents four different jazz bands each week and thus far has seemed intent on proving how unimaginatively popular music can be presented in a visual medium. In Sid Caesar's NBC spot was Caesar Presents (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), a catastrophically unfunny comedy show. Said the trade sheet Variety: "Originally, it was Caesar's intent to base the summer series on the misadventures of a traveling band ... but somewhere along the line, the whole...
...relation) is the most successful, possibly because her poem about the mystic love of St. Francis is simple in conception, which allows a great deal of lyric beauty. Her rhythm comes in soft waves, like the gliding of the proverbial spiritual dove, and she implements it by her visual construction, which gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure of a Chinese warlord develops several ideas successfully, he adds one idea too many when he begins to speculate not only on the figure, but its creator. The additional element only serves...
Proceeding under the assumption that it was necessary for Matisse "to extend his visual ideas in many directions to realize his full creative force" a University Course Exhibition has been arranged at Busch-Riesinger Museum containing many different objects of the late artist's work, including a chasuble designed for the Vence Chapel and illustrations of James Joyce's Ulysses...
Wotruba aims at metaphor, not visual likeness. Like most other modern sculptors, he has jettisoned the tradition that sculptors must turn out figures so lifelike that blood almost flows in the marble veins. Wotruba gets inspiration from the stone block itself. As a result, his figures are roughhewn, still bear the sculptor's chisel marks. And they remain emphatically stonelike, with a sense of the prehistory mystery which man has long attributed to curiously shaped boulders and strange stone outcroppings. This gives an awesome touch to Wotruba's figures, as effective in their blunt massiveness as the matchstick...