1.5 Motion and Time

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession. This medium is called ________.

animation

This American novelist noted that the "aim of every artist is to arrest motion."

William Faulkner

This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life.

actual motion

Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

mobile

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.

movement

Ron Lambert's sculptural work Sublimate (Cloud Cover) replicates the natural process of the water cycle to illustrate the ________.

passage of time

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

performance art

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.

implied motion

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.

kinetic

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla illustrated the rapid movement of a dog running on a leash by painting a series of repeating marks in order to give the impression that we are seeing motion as it happens.

true

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called the illusion of motion

true

The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.

stroboscopic motion

Performance art involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

true

This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.

Op art

Performance artists in the Cirque du Soleil rely on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech.

True