The components assessed were: structure of the session, breadth of topic, depth of topic, use of visual material, enthusiasm of teacher, interactivity with audience, communication skills, timekeeping, knowledge prior to session, knowledge following session and an overall impression.
What Pollock thought of the paintings of this Japanese conceptual art group remains a mystery, but one imagines he would have approved of their enthusiasm for visual dynamism and the randomness of the final designs.
He did not share then my great enthusiasm for the visual arts, and had once mildly mocked me for socialising at school with an intellectually pretentious and elitist group whom he liked to characterise as the "swarthies".
But Dave Farber, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon who is one of the internet's founding fathers, says the enthusiasm for cool visuals will be replaced by a realisation that 3-D navigation is a much-needed tool.
He was, rather, interested in Japan the country, where the band were received with early enthusiasm, and in the visual arts and literature.
It does what it says it does, but it just doesn't inspire the same kind of enthusiasm as the highly visual Flipboard.
Djenguet's infectious enthusiasm makes this a compelling visual essay.
After his first bout with cancer, he seemed to find a new enthusiasm for conventional forms of visual art, while retaining his interest in the outmoded.
By contrast, fancy, coastal visual comedy — "30 Rock," "The Sarah Silverman Program," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" — has a strongly aspirational element to it, with protagonists mired in what Joni Mitchell once called rich people's problems (real estate, restaurants, relationships).
As a writer, Barthelme was deeply alert to what was happening in the visual arts, reading the criticism of, say, Harold Rosenberg with the same enthusiasm he brought to Beckett's work as it began to appear in English.
