1.5 Time and Motion

Which type of motion is this?

The sense of motion created by the use of visual clues highlighting the movement is a key aspect of a static artwork.

Ai Weiwei’s Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn preserves the ancient artifact to emphasize the importance of historicalartifacts

Video games can be considered a form of time-based art because they rely on user interaction over time.

What artistic device did the painter of this work use to communicate the passage of time?

What 1960s art style exploited the physiology of seeing to create effects such as the illusion of movement?

Op Art relies on actual movement rather than optical illusions to create a sense of motion.

Sense of motion created by visual tricks that deceive our eyes into believing that movement is occurring as time passes

Kinetic sculptures must always rely on natural forces like wind or water to move.

Sense of motion created by seeing a sequence of closely related still images in quick succession

What theory explains how a series of still images can create a perception of motion?

Which art forms are capable of expressing actual time and motion?

What artist first referred to their kinetic sculptures as “mobiles”?

What are some common place(s) where you see kinetic typography?

Kinetic Typography

Motion in art can be categorized as actual motion and implied motion. Which one describes artwork that physically moves?

What type of motion is featured in Gianlorenzo Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne?

Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures rely on air to power their movements.