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Moving Pictures

Early Film and American Artistic Traditions
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The body in Motion
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The City in Motion
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Art and Film: Interactions
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Moving Pictures is presented in four components: the introductory section suggests parallels between the first American films and traditional artistic genres such as landscape and marine painting. The second section examines the rise of motion photography and its influence on depictions of the human figure in art and film in the 1890s. The third demonstrates the post-1900 shift in painterly and filmic depictions of urban life: from Impressionist visions to gritty American realist images. The concluding section explores the mutual fascination between practitioners of the fine arts and film in the early days of the new medium. Along with paintings and movies, the exhibition includes posters, early views of kinetoscope parlors, and films about art and artists, photographers, and filmmaking. Highlighting the multifaceted interrelationships between film and other visual art forms, Moving Pictures offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a crucial period in modern American visual culture.

Posted by YouJeong Paik on October 17, 2006 02:52 AM |

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