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Visual Art

A collection of 3 posts
On Movies & Media

Today's Favorite: Breakthroughs in Big-Screen Visual Artistry

The Wizard of Oz enchanted audiences with a wonderland of color that made moviegoing more vivid and exuberantly engaging. When Star Wars opened in 1977, it represented a giant leap forward in the art of visual effects and sound effects. Tron gave us an aesthetic experience through computers that was
15 Mar 2009 1 min read
Obituaries

Andrew Wyeth, remembered by Michael Kimmelman

The famous American painted Andrew Wyeth died today at 91. Kimmelman writes: Wyeth gave America a prim and flinty view of Puritan rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders. A virtual Rorschach test for
16 Jan 2009
On Movies & Media

Are Movies Increasing Your "Capacity to See"?

At Long Pauses, Darren Hughes has posted a quote that I want to share with you here. (Thank you, Darren.) -- Michael Snow, speaking to Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema, Vol. 2 That's beautiful. It expresses potently the very thing I spent a whole chapter trying to capture
02 Apr 2007 3 min read
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