As mediums and technology change so does art. Technology gives us tools that help us view the world in ways that were not possible before. There has always been art movements about going back to some past and painting or sculpting like the “old Masters”, except we want to keep our lights, heaters and tubes of paint.
The movie “Picasso and Braque go to the Movies” looks back at a brief period of time when the advent of Motion Pictures may have added the finishing touch to the “invention” Cubism. I think of Cubism as a re-interpretation of what was already there to be seen. Looking at Picasso’s African Period, Cézanne’s Still Lifes and Braque’s and Matisse Fauvist style, wedded to the flickering lights of silent movies and Cubism doesn’t seem so radical, even for 1900’s.
It has taken 100 years for cinema to feel the breath on its neck of a new medium and technology that also opens the door to how we exhibit paintings, listen to music or read. The IPad and devices like it that will follow evolved from our own creativity.
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