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...Gimme That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom-in on a table in the foreground. A stack of magazines lies on the table, the content of which seems to entirely focus on—guess who?—Chingy. Tabloid pictures of Chingy clubbing with friends and waxing his car, for example, come alive as he joins BFFs Bobby Valentino and Ludacris in stepping...
...importance of race in society’s cycle of violence. She said that it has become fashionable in many circles to marginalize the role of slavery and race in the violent culture of the Civil War. “Kara Walker brings race literally and figuratively into the foreground,” Faust said, praising Walker’s work for reinforcing the prominence of the issue in American national heritage. “We still, I believe, live in a world the war has made,” Faust said. Pointing to a painting of dismembered body parts...
...Philadelphia is that there's a fine chance you can spend your time looking at a mural. There are over 2,500 murals throughout the city--more than in any other place in the world. On South 47th Street, a lush mural shows a row-house scene in the foreground with Van Gogh's Starry Night--inspired sky as a backdrop. Gigantic, stunning portraits of Dr. J and Malcolm X grace other buildings. Prince Charles visited the mural on 40th and Pennsgrove in January to see the outsize rendering of a girl reading a book that has a brilliant column...
...Francisco de Goya (Stellan Skarsgard), that greatest of Spanish painters and precursor of modernism? Very little, as it turns out. He painted Ines, and her wealthy father was one of his patrons. But in Goya's Ghosts he is pretty much what he was in life - the politically temporizing foreground observer of Ines' anguish, which is symbolic, in its way, of Spain's anguish as the 18th Century turned into the 19th, its royal family deposed by the bloodily invading French, who were, in turn, defeated by the British. Mostly (and this is historically true) Goya wished to pursue...
...these advances, using a bulky, large-format view camera on a tripod - and never any artificial light, even for interiors. He figured exposure times in his head - a relatively glacial 1/11th of a second was typical - and learned how to narrow the aperture to ensure that both background and foreground remained in focus. His genius lay in making a picture look artfully composed yet breathlessly immediate: what Evans called his "lyrical understanding of the street...