Questions and answers.
1. because it is a hybrid art form combining drawing with cinematic apparatus.
and it evolved from comic and cartoons.
2 Donald crafton is Chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame
and an authour on books about the history of animation. his claim is significant because it says that animation evolved from commercial art afirming the authours point that it started out as low art in his opinion.
3 one of the pioneering animators was winsor mcay who made gertie the dinosaur. he is famous for the popular and beautiful little nemo comic strip and political cartoons. WHich made him a lot of money and his animations were made for that as well. many other animators showed their work in vaudeville.
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leopold survage
An oil painter not concerned with realism, his work hung in galleries and was critically praised as high art.
hans richter
Same as above, these artists do art that is minimally concerned with narrative or character but rather on medium and technique to create a feeling in the viewer. as animation really comes more from plays and stage than static art I can see why animation did not become dominated by these mens work.
walter ruttman
His work was similar to fantasia animation to classical movement but doesn't try to depict actual things perhaps this is what the author considers is high art.
5 it shows the writers bias towards the later by not even mentioning any cartoonists by name as if they were all the same in fact nothing could be further from the truth and the practitioners were using as much as an individual statement as any high artist. both groups created differnt animations and they didnt know where the medium would go.
6 Its differnt becauae it became popular to show cartoons alongside movies thus they were created for that audience alongside other examples of mass culture, advertising, film, comics etcetera.
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By writing that it appeals through marketing strategy and production that has developed alongside the consumer for the last seventy years. from classical aspirations to postmpodern but always influenced by commercial considerations.
2 first it was concerned with realistic reperesentation. then through dominating the market it became psuedo modernist. then postmodern.
3the companys position as high or low art, the ideals behind stylistic change and a comparison of the silly symphonies to the brave little toaster.
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and it evolved from comic and cartoons.
2 Donald crafton is Chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame
and an authour on books about the history of animation. his claim is significant because it says that animation evolved from commercial art afirming the authours point that it started out as low art in his opinion.
3 one of the pioneering animators was winsor mcay who made gertie the dinosaur. he is famous for the popular and beautiful little nemo comic strip and political cartoons. WHich made him a lot of money and his animations were made for that as well. many other animators showed their work in vaudeville.
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leopold survage
An oil painter not concerned with realism, his work hung in galleries and was critically praised as high art.hans richter
Same as above, these artists do art that is minimally concerned with narrative or character but rather on medium and technique to create a feeling in the viewer. as animation really comes more from plays and stage than static art I can see why animation did not become dominated by these mens work.walter ruttman
His work was similar to fantasia animation to classical movement but doesn't try to depict actual things perhaps this is what the author considers is high art.5 it shows the writers bias towards the later by not even mentioning any cartoonists by name as if they were all the same in fact nothing could be further from the truth and the practitioners were using as much as an individual statement as any high artist. both groups created differnt animations and they didnt know where the medium would go.
6 Its differnt becauae it became popular to show cartoons alongside movies thus they were created for that audience alongside other examples of mass culture, advertising, film, comics etcetera.
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By writing that it appeals through marketing strategy and production that has developed alongside the consumer for the last seventy years. from classical aspirations to postmpodern but always influenced by commercial considerations.
2 first it was concerned with realistic reperesentation. then through dominating the market it became psuedo modernist. then postmodern.
3the companys position as high or low art, the ideals behind stylistic change and a comparison of the silly symphonies to the brave little toaster.
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