When you are carried away to heaven, this is an example of a time when you are rapt.
Rapt attention movie#
The attention you pay during a really great movie is an example of rapt attention. “It looks very much like a spy movie, all those faces, like a Hitchcock movie, all coming out of the curtains and lit up. The definition of rapt is being fascinated and paying careful attention to something, or being filled with an intense em. It’s lit and very film noir,” Party told the Smithsonian Magazine.
“Even at night, it was interesting to see. The work is especially appealing to take in while it’s dark out and there are even fewer crowds. Painted in trompe l’oeil to address “themes of dupery and illusion,” the work “conjures a scenographic set.” Passersby are invited thematically to “peek backstage behind the ‘curtain’ on the National Mall and examine both the collections housed within the Smithsonian and the contents of the distinctive government buildings dotting the surrounding landscape.” The curtains are drawn - or sampled from - noted artworks of master painters including Carravaggio, Rembrandt, van der Spelt, Vermeer and Magritte. What is it that draws the eye? Several anonymous, and somewhat androgynous, faces in black and white and inspired by classical Greco-Roman sculpture are “partially hidden by draped curtains, gazing directly at the viewer no matter their vantage point around the building,” the work’s placard reads.
The scrim is both practical as a breathable fabric in the wind, but as it billows in the breeze the curtains in the piece also seem to come alive with movement. The monumental work is done in pastel painting digitally collaged and printed onto industrial scrim measuring the length of over two football fields and wrapped – Christo style - around the Hirshhorn. “I wanted it to have the effect of saying: “Oh, is there anything behind those curtains?” Party told the Smithsonian Magazine, as he discussed “themes of hiding and revealing” in the work. 1980) entices viewers from every vantage point around the building’s unique drum shape - designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft - to explore what’s revealed and hidden behind metaphoric curtains in art and in the fraught politics of the nation’s capital. “Draw the Curtain” by Swiss artist Nicolas Party (b.
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