Beauty: when art paintings become alive

[loreta]

One of my friends in FB put this strange video about some art paintings that become in movement, giving us the occasion to see more profoundly the painting. I wanted to share it with you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc2rzGN2khg#t=559

 

[Tigersoap]

You can watch it on Vimeo as well if youtube asks you to log in.

Beauty : http://vimeo.com/83910533

It's from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro and it's quite striking visually. Quite gloomy at the end though. There is a gradation in the way the paintings are presented from an edenic state to the fall of humanity in flesh and death osit.

Over Beauty, there has always hung the cloud of destiny and all-devouring time.

Beauty has been invoked, re-figured and described since antiquity as a fleeting moment of happiness and the inexhaustible fullness of life, doomed from the start to a redemptive yet tragic end.

In this interpretation by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro, this beauty is brought back to the expressive force of gestures that he springs from the immobility of canvas, animating a sentiment lost to the fixedness masterpieces.

Its as though these images which the history of art has consigned to us as frozen movement can today come back to life thanks to the fire of digital invention.

A series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty are appropriated, (from the renaissance to the symbolism of the late 1800s, through Mannerism, Pastoralism, Romanticism and Neo-classicism) with the intention of retracing the sentiment beneath the veil of appearance.

An inspiration that returns to us the sense of one fallen, and the existential brevity that the author interprets as tragic dignity, with an unenchanted eye able to capture the profoundest sense of the image.

Beauty in this interpretation is the silent companion of Life , inexorably leading from the smile of the baby, through erotic ecstasies to the grimaces of pain that close a cycle destined to repeat ad infinitum.

They are, from the inception of a romantic sunrise in which big black birds fly to the final sunset beyond gothic ruins that complete the piece, a work of fleeting time

Some of his others videos are quite disturbing and not in a good way in case you'd like to check out his other works.

 

[clerck de bonk]

I got the impression that it was a "good" excuse to make some soft porn with explicit violence. I mean some of those paintings were pretty tacky to begin with (and i'm not referring to the Caravaggio's here).

 

[Alvalsen]

it is interesting
sometimes movements seem not too natural
some pictures worse perceived when objects move
immobility has its own charm - a stark point that gives free rein to fantasy, we draw in the imagination of what it was before and what comes after ;)