Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewer to make an inventive leap into the emotional context of the painting. The artist can also use visual illusions of space to encourage this inventive leap. A frame, for example, gives the picture an illusion of infinite space behind the picture frame, as if the frame were a window looking into the painter's imaginative world. In short, the viewer understands that the artist imaginatively recreates a setting which has nothing to do with the immediate surroundings of the gallery in which the painting hangs...
...TALKING COMPUTER. Burroughs Corp. expects to market a computer next year that will read its answers aloud. Electric impulses will vibrate the membrane of a loudspeaker, forming words. One use: a bank customer can go to a drive-in window and deposit a check in the computerized system, which in one second or so will announce the amount of his balance...
...many things are photographed objectively, and yet we have the power from the use of montage to get into a person's mind by the use of the visual. I suppose a really cinematic form would be a picture like Rear Window. Now strangely enough, people think that motion pictures are galloping horses and automobiles and that kind of thing, which they're not. If you use your camera and montage correctly, you can have a scene in a telephone booth...
...Rear Window, here is a man in one position for the whole picture. He never moves. Yet you have a close-up of Mr. Stewart. He looks, and you cut to what he sees, and you cut back to his reaction. And by the use of visual means you create ideas in his mind. And to show you how flexible the medium is, let us assume that you have a close-up of Mr. Stewart. He looks, and we cut to a woman nursing a baby. Cut back to Mr. Stewart. He smiles. Now what is Mr. Stewart...
...many years before. He was an assistant then. I brought him into this room, and I said, "Where are the black shadows?" And I said, "Look at this room now. You can't see a one." A faint one here and there caused by the diffused light from the window. So we went forward, and I showed him what the thing should be, and we made the whole picture with reflected lights. There are no halos on the people, and the light is reduced to one-quarter of what it usually is. So the colors are quite soft, and except...