1. Movement Movement Movement Movement Movement Movement

2. How do you believe you can investigate movement? • RESEARCH • Sketching, photographs and collecting images of movement. • Player (rugby, football etc.), dancer • Movement of a car, bus, bike, train etc. • Movement of an animal • Movement inside a clock • Movement of a machine

3. Diffiniad o Symudiad movement: changing position without changing location; “the reflex movement of his eyebrows revealed his surprise“; “movement is a natural happening that entails moving the position or location of something movement: The act of changing location from one place to another; “the police were controlling the crowd’s movements “part of a mechanism that drives or regulates (for example a watch or clock; “the expensive watch had a diamond movement" The act of changing the location of something; “move the cargo on it to the boat"

4. KevinSinnott • Kevin Sinnott was born in South Wales in 1947. • Sinnott studied in Cardiff Art and Design College between 1967-68, in Gloucester Art and Design College between 1968-71 and the Royal College of Art between 1971-74. • Sinnott is a contemporary artist, and he is internationally renowned. • He has displayed his work across Wales, Britain, America and Europe. • Sinnott returned to Wales in 1995. • Sinnott’s work has strong feelings towards human relationships and the landscape of South Wales has influenced his work.

5. Images with kind permission of Kevin Sinnott

6. Jackson Pollock • Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in America in 1912. • Pollock studied in the High School of Arts, Los Angeles, but he left there without graduating. Then, he went to study at New York Art College. • Throughout his life his work has shown the influence of Renaissance Art, Mexican murals and Picasso’s Cubist art. • In order to create his work, he does not create paintings in the traditional way – he places a canvas on the floor and scatters paint using a piece of wood. • These pieces of work are an exploration of dance movements. • Pollock often dances around the canvas, and lets the paint drip. • Pollock died in 1956 in a car accident.

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/2462800656/sizes/l/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/2462800656/sizes/l/in/photostream/ ‘Convergence’, 1952, Jackson Pollock

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/detlefschobert/6315210400/sizes/z/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/detlefschobert/6315210400/sizes/z/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/detlefschobert/6315221448/sizes/l/in/photostream/ ‘Cathedral’, 1947, Jackson Pollock

9. Neale Howells • Neale Howells was born in Wales in 1965. • The majority of Neale Howells’ work is done on hardboard using found materials covered in scribbles and graffiti. • His work refers to the television, to conversations he happens to hear or to pieces of information from the radio. • His work is rich, although he uses limited colours. • Neale Howells now works and lives in Neath. Click here to see the artists work

10. Giacomo Balla • ((1871-1958) • The Italian artist, GiacomoBalla, was one of the founders of Futurism • Futurism was very fond of machines and things that moved, such as cars. • The racing car was very important during this movement, and the futurists’ early pictures showed things moving. • In his work Girl Running on the Balcony, Balla was trying to show movement by showing the girl’s legs running. • Other works such as Dog on a Leash, showed speed by putting a number of images on top of one another. • After futurism, cinematography (the cinema) came to take its place by showing pictures that really moved. • Futurism came to an end with the First World War. Young Girl Running on a Balcony, 1912 Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash1912

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukas42/6264795169/sizes/z/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukas42/6264795169/sizes/z/in/photostream/ ‘Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences’ (1913)

12. Futurism • A modern art movement that started with Italian artists in 1909, finishing at the end of the First World War. • Futurism liked machines and war and also showed things that move. • Marcel Duchamp (France, 1887-1968), the cubist and constructivist, used some of these ideas.

13. Example of ‘action drawing’