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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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055 Movement

Although inherently static, painting and sculpture do sometimes convey a sense of movement.

In the early twentieth century, the Italian Futurists Filippo Marinetti (1876–1944), Gino Severini (1883–1966), Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), and Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) used stop-motion images to convey motion. They were influenced by the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), who pioneered stop-motion photographic techniques and made an exhaustive exploration of human and animal movement.

STRATEGIES

• Dynamic movements within the composition

• The depiction of forms or figures that are clearly in motion

• Overlaid or sequential stop-action images

• Rendering photographic effects associated with motion, such as edge-blur, dragged ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781631595431