Zombie art
I found this on Open Culture:
With his short video “Beauty,” the Italian director Rino Stefano Tagliafierro takes “a series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty” and uses the “fire of digital invention” to animate sentiments lost on immobile canvasses. In the video above, you will see works by Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rubens and others put into digital motion. A complete list of the paintings included in the video can be found here.
What do you think?
I acknowledge the digital skills that this video shows, but, apart from the obvious focus on sensationalism, I can't help thinking that the animation actually lessens the power of the paintings. It reminds me of that Saul Tigh's line in BSG (season 4), when he said that he felt it "less with the words". I feel it less with the moves.
And I like it better when the subtext doesn't become the text.
With his short video “Beauty,” the Italian director Rino Stefano Tagliafierro takes “a series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty” and uses the “fire of digital invention” to animate sentiments lost on immobile canvasses. In the video above, you will see works by Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rubens and others put into digital motion. A complete list of the paintings included in the video can be found here.
What do you think?
I acknowledge the digital skills that this video shows, but, apart from the obvious focus on sensationalism, I can't help thinking that the animation actually lessens the power of the paintings. It reminds me of that Saul Tigh's line in BSG (season 4), when he said that he felt it "less with the words". I feel it less with the moves.
And I like it better when the subtext doesn't become the text.