“Dancer In Motion” is a piece that is inspired by cubism from the early 1900s, combining inspiration from Picasso and Boccioni. Cubism rejected that art should copy nature or adopt traditional techniques of perspective and aimed to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas. This project is a 3D rendition of this art style that strives to capture movement and time from a 2D point of view.
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The images on the right served as my main inspiration throughout this project. I found the movement of a ballerina to be fascinating and thought it would be a fitting subject for cubism. While cubism focuses around emphasizing 2D, I wanted this project to achieve the feel of 2D in a 3D medium, while capturing movement in space over time.
Boccioni’s sculptures were very fascinating as they depicted movement over time and Picasso’s Ladies of Avignon is a staple cubist peace of the time out of his many.
More modern renders on the bottom done by Omar Aqil also inspired me to pursue a more modern take on Cubism.
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The images on the right served as my main inspiration throughout this project. I found the movement of a ballerina to be fascinating and thought it would be a fitting subject for cubism. While cubism focuses around emphasizing 2D, I wanted this project to achieve the feel of 2D in a 3D medium, while capturing movement in space over time.
Boccioni’s sculptures were very fascinating as they depicted movement over time and Picasso’s Ladies of Avignon is a staple cubist peace of the time out of his many.
More modern renders on the bottom done by Omar Aqil also inspired me to pursue a more modern take on Cubism.
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Very light sketching was done to get a general vision of the dancers form in different stages of movement. Each freeze-frame of the dancer's movement becomes more complex over time to capture the intricacy of dancing. This complexity is juxtaposed with the basic geometric components that make up the dancer.