FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Harold Lloyd, Germaine Dulac, Hollywood United F.C.
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1800s: partly because of the invention of photography, artists grew less interested in realistic representation. The result was modern art: a vast, dispersed set of movements that revolutionized high art and often sought to scandalize high culture. Movement away from traditional art making, questioned the divide between low art and high art trying to shock high culture. Revolutionary spirit invades art, and the very meaning of art changes in profound ways. 1910s-20s: artists began experimenting with film, playing with the medium"s essential properties, and treating it as an art form . Le retour a la raison (france; man ray, 1923) Man ray modern artist, photographer, modern filmmaker. Well known for his super extreme close up photos of woman"s eyes with tears on their cheek. Take medium of film and produce images that are abstract, various kinds of messing around with movement, light, shadow. In france, the sensibilities of the avant-garde overlapped with the commercial cinema .
