First of all I think the recent work by Nina Paley "All Creative Work is Derivative Says alot:
Many of the greatest artistic acheivements make no attempt to hide their influences. I know there are a few Sleeping People songs that openly celebrate the music of Robert Fripp. However, what inspired me to write this post was a recent piece directed and produced by Max Hattler entitled "1923."
Personally, I'd never heard of Augustin Lesage's work. The aforementioned film is an interpretation of his painting 'A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World' from 1923. I was floored by this piece. I was reminded me of some stage visuals by a production company called Naked that I'd seen recently. posted below
I quickly decided that the piece by Naked was a bit more pop-culture oriented, like something from a Final Fantasy cut scene.
"1923" truly harnesses the spiritual nature of the original work which it was based on, for me it was like two great discoveries in one. Just google image search 'Augustin Lesage' and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Many of the greatest artistic acheivements make no attempt to hide their influences. I know there are a few Sleeping People songs that openly celebrate the music of Robert Fripp. However, what inspired me to write this post was a recent piece directed and produced by Max Hattler entitled "1923."
Personally, I'd never heard of Augustin Lesage's work. The aforementioned film is an interpretation of his painting 'A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World' from 1923. I was floored by this piece. I was reminded me of some stage visuals by a production company called Naked that I'd seen recently. posted below
I quickly decided that the piece by Naked was a bit more pop-culture oriented, like something from a Final Fantasy cut scene.
"1923" truly harnesses the spiritual nature of the original work which it was based on, for me it was like two great discoveries in one. Just google image search 'Augustin Lesage' and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
In closing, since we're discussing art from the 20's, I'll end this post with Len Lye's "Tusulava" 1929 which has its own well defined sense of spirituality.
No comments:
Post a Comment