Sunday, September 19, 2010
Big Bang Big Boom - Paintings that Come to Life
Much of my searching and sharing of interesting things on the internet involves sending and receiving funny or interesting videos from various websites. A few years ago I saw an incredible video by an artist that remains anonymous but calls himself Blu. Blu is an artist in Italy who is highly recognized for his incredible graffiti and street art. He has a very unique style but the presentation of his art is the most unique part. Through this video, he combines the use of old mediums (mostly roller painting, but probably some graffiti as well) with new forms of visual performance. In the streets of Italy, he takes his paintings and creates a time lapse to create a moving animation of his paintings in real areas and settings of the community. These animations are not only just paint, however. They also include actual objects intermixed within the animation to cross over between different mediums of art. By painting and taking a photo, then painting over that image with a new one, his paintings are not only very cool, but they come to life as well.
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This is so cool. Thanks for posting. I especially like, as you pointed out, the combo of old and new.
ReplyDeleteThis somewhat reminds me of start-stop animation, or stop motion. The same could be said about that, in the way that actual hand done artworks works in collaboration with a video camera and a computer to make a single piece of art.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite examples of hand drawn stop motion works..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9JJ38sgrUY
I also love how with hand down work, you can see the past markings from not able to completely erase. It adds a shadow that works well with the whole concept.
Yeah, I guess stop motion was the better choice of description to use rather than time lapse.
ReplyDeleteSuz, that link you posted is actually the same guy and the video that I posted a link to in the beginning of my post.