Movement in Art

Movement• Tools • Techniques • Textures/ Colours /Layers• Sense of motion is created• Composition affects motion and flow• Graduation of size• Repeating of shapes and patterns• Contrast

Eadweard Muybridge• 1830-1904• English Photographer• Big Influence on filmmaking• Created the Zoopraxiscope- an

early device for displaying motion pictures.

• Imaged projected by the fast spinning Zoopraxiscope disks.

Zoopraxiscope Disks

Zoopraxiscope disks in motion

The Horse in Motion created in 1877.

Some more of his motion pictures

Kitty Meijering• Born in Alkmaar in 1974• Graduated from the Amsterdam University• Focuses on painting motion in ballet.• Brings her paintings to life with the help of colours, shapes and different materials.

Captured

Modest

You Lift My Spirit

Lost In Motion

Giacomo Balla• 1871-1958• First wave futurist painter• Depicted light, movement

and speed in his work• Paintings, sculptures,

costumes• Abstract machine-like

forms• Figurative work

Running On a Balcony, 1912 oil on Canvas

Dog on a Leash

Warship, Widow and Wind

Speed of a Motorcycle, 1913.

Streetlight, 1909

Leonid Afremov• Born in Belarus in

1955• Instead of using a

brush, using a palette knife

• Graduated from Vitebsk Art School

In the Vortex of Passion.

On the Other Shore

Windmill Holland

Flamenco

Rodeo

Alan Sailer

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