Discovery activity on the Principle of Movement
Please use a pencil and rule to divide your paper in half vertically and then divide the paper in thirds to make 6 rectangles. The images for this activity are below. Look at the lines in each image and see how they move your eye. Do not try to copy the whole image, but for each image, write the title and try to replicate part of the lines that move your eye around the art work.
Abstract: Richard Norland ‘Bend Sinster’, 1964 abstract lines that show movement
http://www.sharecom.ca/noland/v4.html
2) Pop Art: Roy Lichenstein ‘Whaam’, 1963, stop motion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
3) Op Art: Bridget Riley ‘Current’, 1967, lines that direct the eye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley
4) Dada: Duchamp, 1916, “Nude Descending the Staircase’ repeated image to create sense of motion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2
5) Op Art: Calder “Lobster Trap and Fish Tale’, actual movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_Trap_and_Fish_Tail
6) Graffiti Graphics: Keith Haring, 1993, jittery all-over movement “mural in Barcelona’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring
Artist
Pablo Picasso “Guernica”
