Visual Arts History 1040 Lecture Notes - Dudley Murphy, English Channel, Straw Hat
Document Summary
Fantasy type films, with early types coming to life in 3d. Experience of seeing something for the very first time. Re-create a mythic na ve spectator (not aware of the trickery of cinema) Colour toned down (certain colours drained form the film) dominated by blues and reds bc fascinated with early film, and wanted to make the film look as though it had been made in the early 1930"s two strip. Industrial forces and machine age, with machine aesthetic. How artists have adopted cinema into their painting/sculpture process. Diverse with few common tendencies, response to scientific shifts/revolution with math and physics. Challenging art forcing people to reconsider what art is and what it could do. Colour*** experiments with expressive potential of colour (emotion, meaning) Naturalism with colours respond to the things being represented. Henri matisse, red room (harmony in red), 1908-1909. Rejected imitative colours, with pure colour we obtain stronger reactions.