RTF 306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Erik Satie, Surrealism, André Breton
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Beginning of this movement often related to picasso. Cubists were concerned with form; they questioned the value of traditional pictorial and narrative procedures and values. 1920s saw the cubists movement emerge as artists-turned-filmmakers pushed the concept of pure form toward non-representational mise-en-scene and non-narrative structure. Finished art academy in 1912, began to write about modernism on art for aktion journal. Wounded in first war, travelled to switzerland and became painter. He sought out a three-dimensional forum with an added time dimension- motion pictures. Famous for his first work- rhythm 21, and animated work exploring fundamental images. He thought a film should be a kinetic composition of rectangular forms of grays, blacks and whites. The frame was not a window through which to view a story, but rather a canvas on which to adjust shapes and designs. Studied animation, so he could literally turn a painting into film.
