But this is typical of a production whose visual resourcefulness overcomes the limitations of Brecht's world-view.
Those include "Life of Pi," a Fox film whose visual effects have been nominated for an Oscar.
The results were elegantly stylized portraits whose visual complexities heightened a certain grandness in the faces, a proud carriage, a striking je ne sais quoi.
Whatever the case, Mr. Dodin and his designer, Aleksei Porai-Koshits, created a show whose visual qualities and elegant acting maintained the high traditions of the Maly.
Mr. Price, 50, trusts in M. C. Escher, the Dutch artist whose visual puzzles are popular with New Age crystal gazers and flint-eyed mathematicians alike.
He's a true original whose visual creativity has always put him closer to the real potential of cinema than those who came from literature or theatre.
But he soon discovered artists with work hanging in local cafes, like Joseph Bertiers, whose visual commentary on American politics rivals anything on a newspaper opinion page.
Time will more and more reveal, I think, that the bad directors are the ones whose visual styles we are required to notice.
(The same may be said of the black folk minority in the United States, whose musical contribution was spectacular but whose visual art traditions were largely cut off).
Installed one to a wall in a small, pristinely white gallery, they form an environment whose visual cross-fire makes the act of seeing thrillingly visceral.
The pouches themselves were made from a transparent gelatin, giving the ravioli an almost embryonic or extraterrestrial cast whose visual impact would be lost without a black plate.
