1.5: Motion and Time
Solar Rotary by the contemporary American artist Nancy Holt is a sculptural work at the University of South Florida which features the movement of the sun. At the appropriate time of the year it casts a circular shadow on what?
A contrete ..... && A marker ....
In both kinetic art and performance art, objects physically move and change in real space and time. Which of the following are descriptions of genuine pieces of these art forms?
A spinning bicycle... && Playing a piano...
All these artworks create a sense of motion by the repetition of stationary elements. Who made them?
Ceiling: Jenny Holzer. Blue Waves: Bridget Riley. Black shapes: Giacomo Balla
Which of the following are essential attributes of time-based artworks such as film?
Duration, Scope, Chronology, Setting, Tempo, Intensity
The - of the early movie Fred Ott's Sneeze is 5 seconds. The - is 16 frames per second. The - is high because the action is sudden and strong. The - is limited because it is confined to a single activity. The - can be seen in the still frames as Fred Ott places some snuff in his nose, then sneezes. The - is the studio of the filmmakers.
Duration, tempo, intensity, scope, chronology, setting
Artists made no attempt to express the passage of time in their works until the Renaissance.
False
Which of these art forms are capable of expressing actual time and motion?
Film, Performance, Sculpture, Bioart
What type of motion is featured in Gianlorenzo Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne?
Implied
Which of these terms is commonly used to refer to the types of motion described below?
LAST WORDS. Impled: artwork. Stroboscopic: succession. Illusionary: passes. Actual: time
The force or process used to create actual movement in an artwork is often as much a part of the work as the object being moved. What causes the motion in each of these artworks?
Light (outdoor). Air (flying fins) Water (hanging white cage)
Which, if any, of these works rely on stroboscopic motion to create a sense of movement?
Nemo, lady running, circle disks
Many visual artists had created their own techniques for making time part of the language of visual art by the end of which century?
Nineteenth
Which style of art from the 1960s is particularly associated with exploiting the physiology of seeing in order to create optical effects such as the illusion of movement?
Op Art
Moving films express the passage of time by showing a sequence of closely related still frames in rapid succession. What is the correct order for these stills from Fred Ott's Sneeze?
Picking nose, looking up, face up, face down, face middle staring
Which of these works are examples of bioart?
Purple Rectangles
Which, if any, of the following are themes of Tom Tykwer's 1998 film Run Lola Run?
The nature of time. The difference a few seconds can make
Which of these individuals was a co-creator of the early movie Fred Ott's Sneeze in 1894?
Thomas Edison
Does this fifteenth-century Italian painting of St. Anthony portray a single episode from his life? If not, in what order do the episodes occur?
Top to bottom: First, second, third episode
What is the name for the type of art that reflects the passage of time, not through motion, but through the natural processes of growth and decay that organic materials undergo?
bioart
