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The Chauvet cave is the earliest known site of prehistoric cave paintings in Europe. The images date from 30,000 – 28,000 BCE.

Chauvet Cave paintingsVallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche, Franceca. 30,000-28,000 B.C.E.pigment on stone

• Sassetta “Meeting of st anthony and st paul”, 1440

Repeating figures: Having the same figure more than once in a composition creates the illusion of movement, and also a suggestion of time lapse, as well.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/sassetta-the-meeting-of-st-anthony-abbot-and-st-paul-the-hermit-c1440-795360.html

Linear Narrative: Depicts the passage of time in a single image

Alex Katz

Repeating an element (like costume or specific color) will make it clear to the viewer that we are looking at one individual repeated.

Eduard MuybridgeHorse in Motion1878

Our knowledge of how the world works allows us to ‘see’ movement as it happens.

Bayeux Tapestry excerpt

Exaggerated poses help contribute to the effectiveness of movement

Picasso, Guernica

Robert Longo, From Men in Cities

Exaggerated gestures allow the viewer to ‘feel’ the movement as well as see it

Timing: at what point will you depict a specific movement?

Giacomo Balla, Dog on Leash

Visual Fragmentation: one object or person broken into several moving parts.

FUturisn Futurism: a 20th c Italian movement celebrating ideas associated w/ the future: speed, industry, youth, etc. What suggests this sculpture is moving?

Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Peter Paul Reubens

Optical Movement: The movement of our eyes through a piece.

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm

Raphael, Madonna and Child vs. Rubens, Prometheus

How might composition be utilized to suggest movement? How does an illusion of movement vs/ a suggestion of stabilty change the ‘read’ of an image?

Roy Lichtenstein

Chris Ware

Kerry James Marshall"RHYTHM MASTR," preparatory drawing, 1999-2000Photocopy of ink drawing, and design marker on paper, 17 x 11 inches