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Something I found very interesting in today's lecture was ‘Moving Pictures’ with the most common type being a Zoetrope, which comes from the 19th century which began as a ‘optical toy’ which included a series of images which when spun very quickly it played an animation.
A modern example of ‘Moving Pictures’ in zoetrope is pictured vinyl record. Recently artists have been releasing Zoetrope pictured records which when being played the record spinning plays various images sequences which they become animated. However to see the moving pictures to the naked eye you have to use a strobe light but a video camera can pick up the animations. I recently acquired a Zoetrope vinyl by Fatboy Slim which he has more recently used the graphic of the Zoetrope on a set to play the animation on a large screen.
The next thing covered in class is Japonism which is the craze for Japanese art and design in the west in the late nineteenth century. Japanese art uses flat colours, bold outlines and lack of depth and three dimensionally.
An artist we looked at was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) which his art and design was very ‘theatrical’ and was influenced by Japanese art in many ways including, Vertical format, Printmaking techniques, Composition, Style and Subject matter.
I have seen many of these Japanese works previously, randomly enough from a clothing brand called Uniqlo.