Comparison: Antioni and Hopper
Each means of art contain their own characteristics in symbolizing their ideas and views. Paintings for example have plastic effects through the use of forms, lines and textures and are bordered to its frame, basically limiting the artist to his view. This is used together to pass on an expressive function to the audience. Film in this case, has a broader value to its art, since it exists because of all other forms of art. As well as having a plastic effect in the sense of creating a beautiful image through movement, it interprets a more filmic approach that can be analyzed similar to a painting or a photograph by freeze framing or even by comparison. By associating both means of art from different artists would have to be analyzed by interpreting both technical and conceptual processes, as well as exploring the notion of double autonomy. In the case of Antonionis' movie "Blow Up" and Hopper's painting "Sun in and Empty Room", many features come into play.In the formal or technical processes of the film and painting, both artists utilize an idea of perception to their art. They utilize our familiarities to life, as well as that of the main characters in the film, to distinguish the proceedings of their work in general. In the
Cinema can possess both its own distinctiveness as an art in its self and also be distinguished by comparing it to another art form. With the case of "Blow Up", the film contains scenes where the image is abstract and unrecognizable until the characters appear, which could easily be compared to an abstract image, whether it's a painting, sculpture or photograph. Thus allowing the film, and even the genre, to be its own art form. At the ending sequence, when Thomas is witnessing a mute tennis match, one can easily distinguish the filmic scene as a theatrical play or dance. In the case of Hopper's painting "Sun in an empty room", as it can easily be considered an art form in its self, it can also be compared and analyzed similar to a photograph. case of Antonioni, he has a scene at the end of the film, when the main character Thomas comes in contact with a gang of teenagers who begin to play air tennis on a real court, with fictional rackets and balls, basically miming the idea of the sport and not actually participating in it. It is only when a player acts as he "accidentally" hit the ball out of the court that Thomas participates in their imaginary game and throws it back over the fence to them, that he actually begins to hear the ball bouncing and hitting the rackets in their fictional game when the continue the game. He is therefore being drawn into their version of reality and fills the gap that was missing, whether it was that he did not understand what they where doing in the first place or if it was because he was in denial of what he was witnessing. In Hoppers case, the painting suggests something within the same idea. The painting is somewhat of a
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