Video for Pig With The Face Of A Boy’s A Complete History of the Soviet Union as Told by a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of TETRIS. Directed, animated and edited by Chris Lincé.
Sybil Andrews’ Speedway (above) is a linotype print commissioned by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1934 to advertise what was a new spectator sport, Speedway Racing.
The final piece – like the famous ‘keep calm’ poster – was never used for its intended purpose.
Found via Gunther Stephan
‘She did not hesitate to break up forms and rearrange their component parts. She introduced musical notation, letters and words, as they flash past in shop signs; she expressed movement by repeating the same form in several phases of its action and velocity by blurring contours.’ –Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings
The work of Natalya Goncharova (1881-1962).
‘Metzinger celebrated the salutory effects of exercise on the male population in his ‘Cyclist,’ which focused on a sport that historian Eugen Weber has described as a French creation, and one affordable to the French working class by 1900.’ –Mark Antliff, Patricia Leighten
In 1913, Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) created his Cubist Cyclist to depict audience, participant and the interaction involved.
(Been doing a lot of reading on early modern art)
Video for Bat For Lashes’ What’s A Girl To Do.
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