APD week9 play&abstraction

Theme: For this week’s theme abstraction, the first thing that came to my mind was Picasso, whose evolution of the bull figure impressed me very much. I watched the link shared by Yunshu and got a deeper understanding of abstract art. The image that came to my mind for this theme was that of simple, broken drawings and symbolic motifs. Abstract art is the opposite of realistic painting, which is a departure from imitation of nature. Abstract art also encompasses many genres, such as Mondrian geometric abstraction and Picasso's Fauvism. The essence of all of them is to break with the traditional notion that painting must imitate nature.

Context: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but one year to paint like a child." Picasso said so. It is true that often children's paintings have a more abstract quality. Children use bright colors and paint the world as they understand it, which is the most basic principle of abstraction. In this work, I chose to use wool and paper pieces to create a stop-motion animation, so that the little people, the flowing water all appear in the film in an abstract form. Throughout the piece, I used simple lines to express a small story.

Response
Folio Object (video):https://youtu.be/b5VuMTWQPa0
MAGI Post:

Method:
1. The little man part uses hot pink wool to shape
2. The water part I use blue colored paper to make
3. The river part is made with blue wool
4. Frame by frame shot after each pattern movement
5. 216 pictures into Pr synthesis as video, and then accelerate the video to the desired speed (fast forward 6 times)
6. Start dubbing, first add special effects sound and then add background music

Reflection:In this assignment, I extended from the abstract work to the combination of point line surface. All images develop from the dotted line, and I think abstract art is the style of artwork that shapes the dotted line to the extreme. For example, Picasso's series of bull drawings changes the bull from figurative to deconstructing its musculoskeleton, and then he begins to structure and reorganize the various pieces of the bull. Picasso then began to subtract, turning the bull into basic lines and basic shapes, but retaining the characteristics of the bull (the large horns and genitals). Through the course of a year, the bull ended up retaining only the necessary lines of a bull. This also gives us a dimension to think about, from the slave society of drinking blood and hair to the establishment of a civilized feudal society to the well-off middle class with plenty of food and clothing, but in the great material abundance, everyone's spiritual world needs to do subtraction, so minimalist consumption sprouted and became popular. Picasso believed that "every child is an artist, but the question is how to maintain this childlike nature of the artist while growing up. He spent his whole life searching for such a genuine art form. I could not fully understand this concept in a short time, but I chose to finish this work from the most direct and simple point and line, which should be closer to this concept. So I chose to use wool to form the main "figure", and then used the abstract extraction of water into blue broken dots to demonstrate the flow of a water. The ancient Greek materialist philosophers believed that the world is made of atoms and emptiness, so how are atoms not dots? From them we form lines and then surfaces, and finally the 3+1 dimensional world we now live in. So many precedents and art philosophical studies, and I just tried and experimented a little to explore the abstract art of stop-motion animation under the guidance of APD. It was a very interesting attempt and exploration and I learned a lot in this assignment.And I like stop-motion animation very much, but a complete stop-motion work with accuracy needs a lot of materials and equipment to carry out. It is hard for me to reach this standard at home, but I still don't want to give up stop-motion animation, so I will think of stop-motion form to complete every ADP assignment. Although I have also developed a strong interest in interactive artworks, interaction requires certain basic programming and electronic skills, and I still need more learning. The most valuable thing is that in each ADP I was exposed to different art cultures and art forms, which really made me have fun, but sometimes I wandered away from the theme. So how to stay on topic is also one of my research projects. After all, when I start brainstorming, it's easy to get sidetracked, so how to develop my mind while maintaining a clear expression of the topic is something I need to train.