Paintings That Change
781 views · Published 28 September 2015 · 1:55 · Indexed 4 November 2026
Channel: John Thornton · 2015 · Film & Animation
I love the analytical Cubism that Picasso and George Braque pioneered in the early days of the 20th century. There is something about the fractured space and shimmering surfaces that connects to my artistic imagination. I used to be a painter and the highlight of my painting career was a show in 1989 at the Delaware Art Museum of my quasi Cubist paintings. And then there was a period in which I created software for my own exclusive use. My programs would allow me to generate abstract animations and capture high resolution images. I had the idea of taking some of these images, slicing them up and then making animations out of them based on analytical Cubism. The idea is to have a very slowly and randomly changing picture. Imagine looking at a Picasso landscape that keeps evolving before your eyes, at least that was my intention.
