The observer was confronted with a sequence of normal identity matching trials (I) with occasional catch trials (II, 6 12% share) in which the demonstrator portrait was shifted horizontally (shifts of −10°, −5°, 5° and 10° with respect to the default central position, the cartoon assumes −5° shift).
Although the incident adds balance to the portrait, the shift proves disorienting and undercuts the moral triumph she's just established.
That allowed the Obama campaign not only to alter the very nature of the electorate, making it younger and less white, but also to create a portrait of shifting voter allegiances.
Sequence of normal gaze following trials (I) with catch trials (II) where demonstrator portrait was shifted horizontally (here by 10°).
In his expansive retrospective spanning 35 years of work, Kerry James Marshall's paintings range from urban pastorals to Renaissance-inspired portraits, subtly shifting abstractions to romanticized, domestic interiors.
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After checking out, you stop in the photo studio at the front of the store for a family portrait, and then shift one booth over to a lawyer, who drafts your will or real estate contract.
There is a painter here, Maaike Schoorel, whose extraordinarily fugitive self-portraits seem to shift in time.
A shadowy male portrait by Jayson Keeling shifts the perspective to male on male, as does Clifford Owens's "Anthology (Jacolby Satterwhite)." The fiercely seductive male odalisque in this picture is Mr. Owens himself executing a performance conceived by Mr. Satterwhite, a fellow artist.
The shifting portrait of former residents of a housing project in London's Northwest district shows Smith to be as enthralled by human biodiversity as ever, but cannier at using her insight sparingly, and to greater effect.
