Art Appreciation - Formal Analysis of an artwork

1.5 Motion and Time Movement and change are the essence of life and time. The traditional visual arts, although inherently static, have always been inventive and creative in finding ways to try to reflect, distill, and mimic the world in motion. By means of illusion (Op art) or imitation (performance, kinetic, or “bioart”), in the last hundred years or so artists have been able to incorporate the passage of time and movement into their works using modern media. With the technological advances of the twentieth century, artists acquired new tools to capture motion and the passing of time: from early phenakistosopes (1.5.5) to hit movies (1.5.7 and 1.5.8). Television, film, the Internet, and a multitude of other technologies use movement as an important visual element.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

• TIME • MOTION