Whatever she sees in that brightness, its presence vivifies her.
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Raphel reanimates and vivifies the idea of magic words — incantatory and enchanting.
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It also vivifies a production that, until the reveal, takes its time getting started.
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The Nomadic Studio, an ongoing series of small sketchbooks, are skillful examples of how he vivifies his subject matter.
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Faber vivifies the atmosphere and environment of the fictional planet, from its marked humidity to its insect life, with fascinating specificity.
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She vivifies present conditions of life on a faltering planet as dramatically as an artist can while staying devoted to aesthetic ideals.
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It regularly provides the most surprising color element in his pieces: a Champagne-pink morganite is wrapped in crimson ceramic on a gold earring; a grass-green ceramic frame vivifies a large peridot bracelet.
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That essay—recommended to me by the distinguished curator John Elderfield, who, together with Mary Morton and Xavier Rey, co-curated the National Gallery show—vivifies the ascetic passion of Cézanne: an awkward man of turbulent, half-strangled emotions, known to pause for twenty minutes between one brushstroke and the next, who set benchmarks of rigor and authenticity for artists ever after.
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Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote, "A brilliant, mercurial performance by Elliott Gould steadies and vivifies but cannot save 'Getting Straight' ... A serious-minded, freewheeling comedy, pivoting on student unrest and rebellion on the contemporary campus scene, succumbs to theatrics and, structurally, the very conventions it deplores."Thompson, Howard (May 14, 1970). "'Getting Straight' Opens". The New York Times. 42.
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According to the Zohar, the moral perfection of man influences the ideal world of the Sefirot; for although the Sefirot accept everything from the Ein Sof (Heb. אין סוף, infinity), the Tree of Life itself is dependent upon man: he alone can bring about the divine effusion. This concept is somewhat akin to the concept of Tikkun olam. The dew that vivifies the universe flows from the just.
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Though fictional accounts often involve giant squid attacking boats, live animals found at the surface are almost invariably sick or dying, and no injuries resulting from such encounters have ever been documented. In a review for Whole Earth magazine, Jaron Lanier wrote: "Richard Ellis has written the definitive giant squid book, achieving a superb blend of scientific reporting and cultural history." Similarly, in the malacological journal Folia Malacologica, Beata Pokryszko concluded that the "book combines history, zoology, adventure and myth in an admirable way", and the Publishers Weekly review described it as "an absorbing work of natural history and a classic of cryptozoology", in which "Ellis vivifies and celebrates [the giant squid] with erudition and consummate skill". Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks likewise thought that Ellis had done a "splendid job bringing together virtually every known account (mythical, fictional, and factual), and producing a narrative at once gripping and meticulously balanced".
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It always involves what modern philosopher-psychologists call absurdism, involving the sense of isolation that comes with the feeling of living in an irrational world in which one must create one's own reason for being. It is a shaky, groundless world in which catastrophe, personal and social, seems imminent – a godless world in which there is no net to catch one after one falls from grace. The sense of gracelessness become peculiarly graceful pervades Reichert's eccentric lines and forms, adding to the feeling of absurdity that informs Reichert's works. But however one might categorize them stylistically and expressively, what strikes me as particularly meaningful is their uncanny abstractness, self-evident in the Mechanics of the Universe, 2012, subtly evident in the figural works, be the figure a naked body, as in the wraith- like Yellow Nude, 2002, or a vessel, which has a body of its own, and is a symbol of the human body at its most intact. The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said that abstraction is a “process of emphasis, and emphasis vivifies life,” which is certainly what Reichert's art does. More pointedly, he said that it is “a stripping bare…in order to intensify,” and Reichert's paintings are certainly intense.
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