DESCRIPTION

How can walking, moving a hand, dancing, or running be depicted via drawing or sculpture? Was the representation of human movement the same in Ancient Greece and at the beginning of the twentieth century? How is it possible to illustrate speed? Can time be paused in dance? Participants of the online course Movement in Art will try to find answers to these questions.

The course will introduce listeners with various methods of representing movement in art, including ones where exercises on dance and movement are implemented to literally replicate poses and gestures of famous artworks’ characters and those where artists use animation, video, and drawing.

ВЕДУЩИЕ КУРСА

 

Viktoria Scherbenko is an art pedagogue at the IB (International Baccalaureate) program, teacher of creative and theoretical classes for children and teenagers in various Moscow museums. She graduated in Arts and Graphics from Moscow Pedagogical State University, studied at the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art, completed an internship in the Art History Faculty of the University of Perugia, Italy, and professional growth courses at the school METHOD.


 

Maria Timofeeva is an International Management student at the University of Warwick (UK). Member of Warwick Art Centre’s student committee. Graduate of the IB (International Baccalaureate) art program, where she curated the student exhibition Movement in Art. She is president of the dance community Warwick EQHO and participant of Project Pac (UK). Student at Todes Vavilona (Babylon’s Todes) dance studio and Provogery team member at PROТАНЦЫ.

HOW TO TAKE PART

The class will be broadcast via Zoom and involve live interaction between pedagogues and the audience.

Participants will need a device with a webcam and the installed Zoom app, as well as a smartphone with a camera (if possible).

REGISTRATION

Schedule

Movement in Art History: Static and Dynamic Representation on Canvas and in Dance

During the opening class, participants will learn how artists of different epochs portrayed movement and will discuss statics and dynamics as well as how to combine dance and visual art. During the practical session, everyone is invited to make a video demonstrating a small dance piece based on the poses of characters from famous artworks.

The class will be broadcast via Zoom and involve live interaction between pedagogues and the audience.

Participants will need a device with a webcam and the installed Zoom app, as well as a smartphone with a camera (if possible).

Date
Monday, July 6
Time
16:00–17:20

Photography, Animation, and Movement

The second class is dedicated to the representation of movement in the era of photography. Participants will learn about the method of frame-by-frame shooting invented by Edward Maybridge and the influence of photography on the representational means in late nineteenth-century painting (using Edgar Degas’s works as an example). The practical session will allow each participant to make an animation piece by gradually “building” movement from one pose to another.

The class will be broadcast via Zoom and involve live interaction between pedagogues and the audience.

Participants will need a device with a webcam and the Zoom app, a smartphone (or tablet) with a camera and the installed Stop Motion app, as well as art materials: white A4 office paper (10 sheets), an A4-size or bigger sheet of thick paper or cardboard (white, grey or black), scissors, a graphite pencil, a rubber, a black marker pen, a medium-size brush, black ink (or black/brown watercolor or gouache paint), a water tank, a piece of cloth or paper towel.

Date
Wednesday, July 8
Time
16:00–17:20

Sketches in Movement

The final class will explain how movement was depicted by artists in the twentieth century. After being introduced to the works of Futurists, Marcel Duchamp, and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey, members of the group will create quick sketches representing each other in motion.

The class will be broadcast via Zoom and involve live interaction between pedagogues and the audience.

Participants will need a device with a webcam and Zoom app, as well as art materials: white A4 office paper (10 sheets), white tracing paper (5–10 sheets), a graphite pencil, a rubber, a black marker pen, color pencils (or color felt-pens or color pens).

Date
Friday, July 10
Time
16:00–17:20