Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visual Logic. Siqueiros worked from photographs, but the effects he created are anything but photographic. Faces are distorted, sometimes to the point of caricature, bodies grotesquely contorted to match the mood of the scene...
Mural painting, Siqueiros believes, is a special art that demands a totally different kind of visual logic than portraiture. For him, it is "architectural art, active painting for the active spectator." Since the viewer moves as he looks at the mural, the traditional fixed Renaissance perspective will not do. Instead, Siqueiros emphasizes a multiplicity of vantage points...
...interpretation of it depends largely on how one interprets the tennis game; when the photographer returns the illusory tennis ball he is not giving up hope and joining the revellers. The tennis game ending, like the five minute montage that ends Eclipse, is less a new scene than a visual synopsis of the events preceding it, most specifically the murder. The slow camera-panning back and forth following the imaginary ball refers to the panning back and forth along the blow-ups; the photographer is again faced with a situation that potentially could involve him personally...
...character: he will too frequently succumb to the temptations of his life, probably never free himself from the pitfalls of a spiritually bankrupt society. The last shot, however, confirms his ultimate rejection of total involvement with the elements symbolized by the illusory tennis game. The ending makes a concise visual statement of the nature of the stasis the photographer has attained...
...narrow-mindedness of Antonioni's conception would be more tolerable were it not for his continual use of sledgehammer symbolism. The visual venom with which he passes judgment on the vapid fashion models, the glassy-eyed crowd watching the Yardbirds, and the tennis players, frequently reaches laughable proportions (two people playing tennis without a ball equals two people living in a world of illusion, get it?). This defect in Blow-Up, mostly the fault of the screenplay, greatly reduces the total effect of the film. Blow-Up, when all is said and done, is a small film dealing with large...