Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painting of an apple look the same when in Gertrude Stein's collection as when in the collection of the President of Del Monte canned foods? Yet how we arrange paintings within the exhibition creates smaller contextual elements clarifying and defining the larger whole; these smaller elements are the visual evidence imperative to any visual lesson. An exhibition becomes a work of art itself: a statement made through visual context and a statement of context...
Second, Clavell clearly has not been affected by any of the hysteria over recognition of film as a visual art which has forced some old pros and inchoate apprentices to strive hysterically for a "look": more specifically, a "now" look. From his work, I assume that Clavell would think even the serious theories to be so much drivel. I don't know if I'd call him a "good storyteller" as Pauline Kael did, but that is precisely what he intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz...
...talk about the good times when they were travelling with the big name groups, "doin' far out stuff, staying at the best hotels." But rarely does the camera do more than catalogue meetings and encounters, jumping from one group to another, from town to town, until even this straightforward visual style is muddled...
This Constructivist landmark, in art and architectural development, is well exemplified in a show entitled "Search for Total Construction (U. S. S. R. 1917-1932)," on exhibit until February 14 at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. A rather flat show, consisting mostly of photographic and pictorial representations of architectural structures (which is unfortunate since this group has had such an influence in spatial concepts), but an important record in visual historical thought. Some of the best examples have come out of Harvard's own museums: the basements of the Busch-Reisinger, the Fogg, Carpenter Center, etc. (e.g., Malevitch...
...Soviet Constructivists exhibited some of the first attempts to deal with space, and they did this as artists of society, not as artists of isolated schools; their originality and bold idealism added a new spatial metaphysics to visual thought. Where artists had thought in terms of mass and birthday cakes, they could now think in terms of space and atoms...