Friday 9 January 2009

Engaed in the study of Eadweard Muybridge and Francis Bacon

The Tate Britain had Francis Bacon's exhibition. He studied human action from Eadweard Muybridge. Also, his drawings had some concerns about the dialogue between human figure and the space. In the Francis Bacon's paintings, I think they are describe the dynamic status figure in the moment.
'a ditionary' of the body in motion - "My principal source of visual information is Muybridge, the 19th-century photographer who photographed human and animal movement. His work is unbelievably precise. He created a visual dictionary of movement, a living dictionary." (Francis Bacon )
Eadweard Muybridge is most famous for his split-second studies of motion which began in 1872 with an attempt to capture the movement of a galloping horse. By 1877 he had developed a technique to place 12 cameras in a row to capture each stage of the horse’s movement. His books Animal Locomotion and The Human Figure in Motion made systematic studies of movement, and inspired artists in the twentieth century such as Francis Bacon. Later Muybridge experimented with a device to create moving images from still photographs, making him a pioneer of cinematography.

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