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...important art form, are all on show: the snow shovel (In Advance of the Broken Arm), the urinal (Fountain), the Bicycle Wheel, the Hat Rack and the bearded reproduction of the Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q., which is a racy double entendre in French). How did Duchamp choose his objects? On "visual indifference," he once said, "as well as a total absence of taste, good or bad." The Dadaists loved words, and the Pompidou show displays rooms full of them. It's a legitimate exercise, since the movement started with poetry and performance art at the Cabaret Voltaire. But the books, brochures...
...Part of that consistency is in the careful follow-through of visual motifs introduced in the earliest chapters. Black Hole may be the most Freudian graphic novel you will every read. Dreams and symbols play a major role the development of character and theme. Vaginal-like openings appear in such forms as branches being pushed aside or a cut on someone's foot. Guns and serpents make for opposing sexual symbolism. While such imagery has been used before, Burns smartly applies them in ways unique to the medium, integrating them into the very design of the book...
Much credit has to go to Junell for creating a short film out of a song by a band whose music is hardly visual. The video concerns a bald, portly, middle-aged man, living a soulless corporate life in a particularly depressing Bed, Bath, Linens, Things and Beyond. Following are shots of mattresses and men with ill-fitting dress shirts; general misery ensues, backed by lead singer Britt Daniel’s restrained 4/4 emotions. Later, said fat protagonist comes home, relaxes, eats, puts on women’s clothing… what? Yes, it seems that, as Daniel croons...
...free, so energetic,” Wolohojian says, contrasting with its velvety, lusher application in “Chanteuse de Café.”Wolohojian also describes how the background of “Chanteuse de Café” creates, for him, a visual representation of sound. The dark backdrop behind the café singer is a “cavern of black space” symbolic of the “deep belly of the singer.” Her song pours out of it, manifested in bright vertical sound-waves that double as the decorative...
...Neverland” and “Monster’s Ball,” outdoes himself by using creative camera angles and surprising scene transitions to keep audience members at the edge of their seats. The opening scene is an especially breathtaking, in-depth visual of a car tire exploding and the metal wheel plate skidding along the ground as sparks fly. The scene catches the audience, immediately mesmerizing them and drawing them into the movie. Unfortunately, even Schaefer’s master camerawork cannot sustain the audience to the end of “Stay...