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Hybridization of Art

Clean the Sky - Positive Eco Trends & Breakthroughs

Animated Paintings

— November 5, 2007 — Art & Design
The evolution of the digital age has also encompassed the art world, causing new art forms to arise, including hybridization or fusion of old and new media. Visual art is seeing the convergence of illustration and painting with digital animation and film technologies, a contemporary artistic medium referred to as "animated painting."

A recent exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art features "Animated Paintings" by over a dozen global artists including Kota Ezawa, Takeshi Murata, Wit Pimkanchanapong, Ann Lislegaard and William Kentridge.

"Ezawa, who is American, and Murata, who is from Japan, represent the disparate nature of these filmic works," Sign On San Diego wrote. "Ezawa's combines imagery of the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, using a digital process that allows him to draw by hand over film footage. Meanwhile, he pays homage to the spirit of Milan Kundera's most widely read novel, which also provides the title of his one-minute film shown on an old-school projector, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'"

"Murata eases from image to abstraction and back again, several times. Rambo is recognizable and then fades into a swirl of colors. The dot in his title surfaces like a synthetic sun and flashes like a strobe light. His approach is closer to painting."

The artists come from across the world. Lislegaard is from Copenhagen, Pimkanchanapong from Bangkok and Kentridge is from South Africa.

Lislegaard's imagery is closer to that of video games, but overlaid with a painter's sensibility. Her film points to one tendency in the show: adapting computer-or media-generated imagery to an individual vision. This is an opposite tendency, as Hertz points out, to the artists like Kentridge and Qiu, who begin with drawings and construct a film from then.

Like virtually all shows that chronicle a trend, this one assembles artists of contrasting styles and sensibilities. That's to be expected in a time when art itself is so eclectic.

There's even one artist, Wit Pimkanchanapong from Bangkok, whose major contribution to the exhibition is a ceiling canopy that flows across the entire space for the show. It consists of sheets that mirror the imagery in a short computer-animation piece airing in the galleries. Call it filmic decoration or set design.
Trend Themes
1. Hybridization of Art - As art and technology continue to intersect, there will be more opportunities for artists to create new mediums that blend traditional mediums and digital animation.
2. Animated Painting - The development of Animated Painting as a new art form creates opportunities for artists to push the boundaries of traditional painting and storytelling using digital animation technologies.
3. Individual Vision in Film-making - The trend of adapting media-generated imagery to an individual vision presents opportunities for artists to create unique perspectives in film-making by starting with drawings and constructing a film from them.
Industry Implications
1. Art - The intersection of art and technology presents opportunities for artists to explore new mediums, create unique perspectives, and push the boundaries of traditional art forms.
2. Film-making - Animated Painting and the trend of adapting media-generated imagery to an individual vision presents opportunities for filmmakers to create unique perspectives and push the boundaries of traditional storytelling.
3. Technology - The development of Animated Painting as a new art form highlights the continued advancement of technology and its potential to blend and enhance traditional art forms.
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