Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as an individual develops a personality which defines his characteristic approach to the problems of living, artists develop a manner of handling visual problems which characterizes all their work. Many artists commit themselves to presenting solution to problems of representation with a specific style. It seems particularly true, in the twentieth century's rapidly shifting waves of fashion, that many of these artists capsize and sink...
...total production. Smith's sculpture never encourages the viewer to move around it or see it as an object with volume. His sculpture is designed, like painting and drawing, to be viewed from only one position. In one of his earliest works, Saw Head (1933), the over-all visual context is two dimensional, with the mouth and eye as obvious examples of the use of three dimensional form to suggest flat surface and line. Even the more three dimensional features, such as the nose, suggest two dimensional shading rather than full forms in space...
...forties, Smith explored this illusionary effect of two dimensionality in a new way with a small welded piece called Head as Figure. Here, Smith made three planar compositions and put them together at right angles. By visual association, the flatness of each of these three units gives the total sculpture an over-all illusion of two dimensionality. If the viewer forgets, for the moment, what he knows about the volume of the sculpture he can see it as a two dimensional composition...
...cause of preventing blindness. Said London's Professor Norman Ashton: "You have earned the gratitude of many people, but the deepest gratitude will never be expressed-nor can it be. It will be found in the eyes of those who live after us, who drink in the visual beauties of life without fearing the loss of that vision, and who may say, 'It is wonderful...
...Flown Before? Much of their madness is visual, relying on Hen-dra's cucurbitaceous shape and Dolly Sister face and on Ullett's saturnine suavity. Put them both in riff-R.A.F. hats and let them pose as World War II briefing officers, and things quickly get out of hand. Announcing that tonight's mission will be over Frankfurt, Ullett pauses to inquire: "Who's flown before? I see. Can anyone drive? Oh good. Stand up so they can see you. You'll be flight leader. The rest of you divide up in groups...