Bill Viola The Reflecting Pool

Videotapes by Bill Viola 1. The camera angle of this film never moves.

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With such a contradictory play between title and imageAscension is an image of a man descending after allViola sets up a series of dualities.

Bill viola the reflecting pool. Second work of Bill Viola The reflecting pool is extract from the series called similarly of five videos. 3 Yet it also symbolizes the passage of time and memory. The Reflecting Pool 1979 2.

Violas artworks are known for the integral themes of human life they portray. Chott el-Djerid A Portait in Light and Heat 1979 4. Bill Viola is one of the pioneers of video art.

The beginning of the video leads the viewer to believe that they would be observing a man interacting with a pool of water in an expected way. For over thirty years Bill Viola has created single-channel videos as well as sound and video installations that focus on spirituality and explore multiple levels of human consciousness. The Reflecting Pool Anthem The Crossing.

The Reflecting Pool 19779 Videotape color mono sound Projected image size. One of his pieces The Reflecting Pool is a series of five individual videos demonstrating the diverse stages of an individuals life. The Reflecting Pool Bill Viola is well known for creating single channel videos that focus on exploring multiple levels of the human consciousness and spirituality.

Gift of the friends of Jane Fluegel. Ancient of Days 1979-81 3. To Bill Viola The Reflecting Pond first represents a reflection on the individuals arrival into the world of nature a baptism into a world of virtual images and indirect perceptions.

Violas seminal piece The Reflecting Pool was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital piece. Its incredibly eerie when played just by itself. Une des œuvres les plus importantes de lart vidéo.

Bill Viola - European Insights. When Viola was a child he almost drowned in a lake on a family vacation. 2135 x 160 cm 7 minutes Performer.

A man is suspended in time hovering above the pool in the midst of a leap. Bill Violas work Reflecting Pool is something I was introduced to in a previous Creative Imaging course which focused heavily on video artThe seemingly simplicity of Reflecting Pool is what makes the work intriguing for me. I Do Not Know.

Un homme sort de la forêt et sinstalle debout au. Post-production he extended Ascensions entire sequence which was only a few seconds in real time into 10 minutes of extreme duration. A man emerges from the forest and stands before a pool of water.

1 2 3 4 5 6. Download Full PDF Package. Collected WorksDate197780ArtistBill ViolaAmerican born 1951.

The camera is positioned in the same place for the entirety of the piece. In it Viola emerges as central protagonist from a thick forest into a clearing filled by an artificial pool. He leaps up and time suddenly stops.

2021 Bill Viola. Bill Viola - European Insights. Suspended in time a man hovers in a frozen midair leap over the water as subtle techniques of still-framing and multiple keying join disparate.

1977-79 7 min color sound. In the beginning of the film you see a square pool which has the color and feel of an impressionist painting. Viola describes it as concerning the emergence of the individual into the natural world in a kind of baptism.

As the noise of an aeroplane slowly passes and fades overhead Viola approaches the edge of the pool whereby he removes his shoes. The Reflecting Pool Anthem The Crossing. Apparition-disparition du reflet dun corps sur leau.

Courtesy Electronic Arts. In the title work The reflecting pool 1977-79 all movement and change in an otherwise still scene is confined to the reflections on the surface of a pool. Bill Viola Produced at WNETThirteen Television Laboratory New York and WXXI-TV Workshop Rochester NY.

29 Full PDFs related to this paper. This is the first impression of American artist Bill Violas video The Reflecting Pool. Bill Violas The Reflecting Pool created from 1977 to 1979 is largely concerned with water.

During about seven minutes the spectator is facing at a fixed plane having a view on a swimming pool surrounded by a forest. A short summary of this paper. The setting of The Reflecting Pool is a.

In this work all movement and change in an otherwise still scene is confined to the reflections on the surface of a pool in the woods. All movement and change in the otherwise still scene is limited to the reflections and undulations on the surface of the pond. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.

Directed by Bill Viola. A man wearing jeans and a shirt arrives and stays at the waters edge visibly hesitating. Released in 1979 the piece took two years to create and his been exhibited in numerous galleries around the world.

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