Movement in Art
Movement
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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.
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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
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On the Other Shore
Windmill Holland
Flamenco
Rodeo
Alan Sailer
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• "Movement." Art Apprentice Online. Art Apprentice, n.d. Web.
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• "The Principle of Movement." Blue Moon Web Design. Blue Moon
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
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n.d. Web. <http://www.kittymeijering.nl/AboutKitty.htm>.
Bibliography
• . "Figurative Art Paintings." Kitty Meijering. N.p., n.d.
Web. 7 Jan 2012.
<http://kittymeijering.jalbum.net/Kitty Meijering/>.
• . "Giacomo Balla." . N.p., n.d. Web.
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• . "Leonid Afremov Biography." PicassoMio. N.p., n.d.
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