static

Examples of static in the following topics:

• Time and Motion

  • Motion, a principle of art, is a tool artists use to organize the artistic elements in a work; it is employed in both static and time-based mediums.
  • Motion is employed in both static and in time-based mediums and can show a direct action or the intended path for the viewer's eye to follow through a piece.
  • Techniques such as scale and proportion are used to create the feeling of motion or the passing of time in static visual artwork.
  • Film is many static images that are quickly passed through a lens.
  • Name some techniques and mediums used by artists to convey motion in both static and time-based art forms

• Time

  • One of the problems artists face in creating static (singular, fixed) images is how to imbue them with a sense of time and/or motion.
  • In the modern era, the rise of Cubism and subsequent related styles in modern painting and sculpture had a major effect on how static works of art depicted time and movement.
  • While static art forms have the ability to imply or suggest time and motion, the time-based mediums of film, video, kinetic sculpture, dance and performance make use of actual motion by their very definitions as mediums.
  • Film is a process whereby many static images are quickly passed through a lens.

• Motion

  • Motion can show a direct action or it can show the intended path for the viewer's eye to follow through a static artwork.
  • All art works employ the principle of motion in some way, whether they are static or time-based mediums.
  • While static art forms have the ability to imply motion via the path of the viewer's eye, there are a number of mediums which are defined by their use of motion (and time).
  • Film involves many static images that are quickly passed through a lens, allowing the eye to view them as successive and in motion.
  • Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp exemplifies motion in a static work of art.

• Marble Sculpture and Architecture in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • The figures on the east pediment await the start of a chariot race, and the whole composition is still and static.
  • Unlike the static composition of the eastern pediment, the Centauromachy on the western pediment depicts movement that radiates out from its center.
  • Some are static with two or three figures standing rigidly, while others, such as Herakles and the Cretan Bull convey a sense of liveliness through their diagonal composition and overlapping bodies.

• Sculpture in the Greek High Classical Period

  • High Classical sculpture demonstrates the shifting style in Greek sculptural work as figures became more dynamic and less static.

• The Southwest

  • Men, seen as static in nature, create sand paintings for healing rituals.

• Implied Line

  • By visually connecting the space between the heads of all the figures in the painting, a sense of jagged motion is created that keeps the lower part of the composition in motion, balanced against the darker, more static upper areas of the painting.

• Nayak Painting

  • The figures are static and often located inside decorated arches or curtains.

• Symbolism

  • In Belgium, symbolism became so popular that it came to be thought of as a national style: the static strangeness of painters like René Magritte can be considered as a direct continuation of symbolism.

• Aegina

  • The two battle scenes also add movement and excitement to the scene, elements not seen in earlier pedimental sculpture, which were often static and heraldic.