Concept for the motion analysis | ||||||||||
He
[Jackson Pollock] demanded the huge screens because the artist required
big "battlegrounds" to paint not only with his arms, but with
the movement of his whole body. 1
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Jackson Pollock, Nummer 32, 1950, Duco (Lackfarbe) auf Leinwand |
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In
those days I wanted to make cartoon films and saw a future for painting
only through putting forms in motion, think of the drawings by Leonardo
da Vinci, the Cataracts, the swirls of water or the convulsive laughter
of his caricatures in motion...this, in my opinion, was the contribution
of the photocinematographic apparatus to the old art of drawing. |
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Leonardo da Vinci, Naturkatastrophe, um 1517/18, schwarze Kreide, Feder und Tinte auf Papier |
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Top: Traces generated by the centers of all tracked objects Middle: Traces generated by an image exclusion procedure Bottom: Representation of the temporal dimension: the youngest changes create white traces that gradually fade to black |
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Sketch for
generating traces from an image sequence |
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1
Janson, H.W., in: Epochen der Kunst (Band 4), S.361, Hrsg. von Kammerlohr,
München 1989 |