| "Rules: Logic and Applications" 2nd Workshop, Dec, 2019 |
| Aesthetic Morphisms |
| Jocelyn Ireson-Paine |
| www.jocelyns-cartoons.uk/rules2019/ |
| "Rules: Logic and Applications" 2nd Workshop, Dec, 2019 |
| Aesthetic Morphisms |
| Jocelyn Ireson-Paine |
| www.jocelyns-cartoons.uk/rules2019/ |
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In order to convey the illusion of
a coherent image, Ernst concealed the
edges and intersections of the
various cut-out images.
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— From "Beyond Painting", in
Max Ernst: a
Retrospective, page
47.
Certainly it's hard to discern the edges of the
disparate objects included into
Above the Clouds Midnight Passes:
This suggests an "artistic technique" morphism: mapping from an image and a boundary specification to an image in which the boundaries have been "equalised" to hide joins.
Ernst can't have been the only artist who
used this technique. Here are two collages from
Terry Gilliam's
Animations of
Mortality:
It's interesting to note Gilliam's
remarks on making collages:
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LESSON No 1
CREATING NOTHING OUT OF
SOMETHINGS
The 'secret' of creating interesting
scenes is to use objects in surprising ways,
in new or odd combinations, or simply
by altering the relative scale of the
objects. Here we see several totally
unrelated pictures. By taking the
bits of each one that catch our
fancy we can assemble a fantastic scene
and avoid having to employ an expensive
'live' artist to paint something
comparable.
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And regarding the importance of
invisible joins:
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'Shooting' artwork made up of
bits of paintings and photographs is
a tricky business. Shadows are the
enemy. Once they appear . . . 'BANG', the
illusion is shattered and the artwork
is revealed for what it is — lots
of separate pieces of paper. Well sir, the
public aren't going to pay to see separate
pieces of paper. In the end the Board of
Directors decided that we had to keep
those little buggers flat no matter what
the cost. So, while Mr Swinburne of
Accounts was recovering in
hospital, we set to work and built
this baby — the Pression d'Art, Mark 1.
Who says Animation isn't 'dead butch'?
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