Reviews for Moving pictures

The average rating for Moving pictures based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-24 00:00:00 Dave Berte Hollander traces how contemporary cinema -- rather than breaking a break/rupture from previous visual culture -- is an extension of the drama of painting. This is a must read for people interested in art history. Here are some of my favorite quotes: The magic of cinema: "But a cinematic art also invests natural appearances with their own absolute meaning, and then incorporates the viewer into the universe these appearances create" (14) Painted light predecessor to artificial light: "Painted light, imitating the action of seen light, can give this sense that the world of the picture is momentarily actual and in uncertain motion - becoming seamlessly part of our own shifting world, even while remaining a painting in a frame" (16) Why light matters: "For human creatures dependent on the sun, the action of light has an obvious primal drama that compels the human imagination" (18) On the Camera: "Ideally, the camera unerringly finds what the bodily eye and the mind's eye are both unconsciously lusting for, or perhaps dreading" (21) Paintings must move in order for us to be moved: "In art, for the soul to be moved, the eye must move, and so, quite apart from the light, the painting must move" (21) Movies carry on legacy of painting: "The best film imagery, the stuff that makes movies the art they are, derives its power from the expressive methods used for centuries in the kind of realist art devoted to evoking subjective experience. The camera, being both a popular graphic medium and a reproductive mirror through which such art became accessible, has allowed the movies to carry it on" (32)

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-06 00:00:00 Justin Gould thought a book on a boring painter would somehow be interesting. Nope!