Comments on: Time in the Arts http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/ Enrich, Inspire, Entertain... Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:23:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: don b http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-215 don b Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:14:12 +0000 http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-215 Time can be conveyed in paintings. Time is not a variable in the painting medium though, whereas time arts it is. Time can be conveyed in paintings. Time is not a variable in the painting medium though, whereas time arts it is.

]]> By: Ted Megremis http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-90 Ted Megremis Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:26:57 +0000 http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-90 I think that time is equally portrayed by films, paintings, and music. Sure a film seems to convey time better because it is a moving piece of art rather than a still one. However there are thousands of paintings conveying things that were happening in certain time periods. While some may be fictional, there are also many truthful paintings that help bring aspect to a time period or culture. In all three categories: films, paintings, and music, there are different ways to say that each one is better at conveying certain time periods, but overall i think it is a question that we will never be able to answer. I think that time is equally portrayed by films, paintings, and music. Sure a film seems to convey time better because it is a moving piece of art rather than a still one. However there are thousands of paintings conveying things that were happening in certain time periods. While some may be fictional, there are also many truthful paintings that help bring aspect to a time period or culture. In all three categories: films, paintings, and music, there are different ways to say that each one is better at conveying certain time periods, but overall i think it is a question that we will never be able to answer.

]]> By: Tori Caldwell http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-85 Tori Caldwell Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:19:16 +0000 http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-85 The quote stated by the professor is really something that intrigues me in itself. It has been conveyed to me that professors/teachers are wiser in their fields than the students in which they are teaching. In this case, however, the professor seems to not be certain on a very important topic. Of course time can be shown through arts such as paintings! As the professor says, “they don’t move”, is he saying that paintings have no movement or create no movement? Observing many artistic drawings, paintings, etc, it is quite obvious that time can be portrayed. Whether turning from night to day or a whole era of war to peace, time is something that paintings can actually grasp in a different sense. Yes, many films relate to time but it easy and something many people can do, but when a painting captures time and inflicts it upon its viewers, than something a lot deeper occurs! The quote stated by the professor is really something that intrigues me in itself. It has been conveyed to me that professors/teachers are wiser in their fields than the students in which they are teaching. In this case, however, the professor seems to not be certain on a very important topic. Of course time can be shown through arts such as paintings! As the professor says, “they don’t move”, is he saying that paintings have no movement or create no movement? Observing many artistic drawings, paintings, etc, it is quite obvious that time can be portrayed. Whether turning from night to day or a whole era of war to peace, time is something that paintings can actually grasp in a different sense. Yes, many films relate to time but it easy and something many people can do, but when a painting captures time and inflicts it upon its viewers, than something a lot deeper occurs!

]]> By: Grant Jackson http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-14 Grant Jackson Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:23:48 +0000 http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-14 Brice Marden once said of his monochromes "I make a very slow painting." In speaking of painting and time, two factors come to mind. One is the time the artist spends making the painting, as stated above. The other is the time the viewer spends with the work. "Apocalypse Now" is always around 2 and 1/2 hours long, no matter how many times you watch it, but the time spent with a painting usually increases with repeated viewings. Good topic, Blake. Brice Marden once said of his monochromes “I make a very slow painting.”

In speaking of painting and time, two factors come to mind. One is the time the artist spends making the painting, as stated above. The other is the time the viewer spends with the work. “Apocalypse Now” is always around 2 and 1/2 hours long, no matter how many times you watch it, but the time spent with a painting usually increases with repeated viewings.

Good topic, Blake.

]]> By: John Murphy http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-6 John Murphy Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:04:17 +0000 http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-6 As I read your blog an interesting notion hit me. You mentioned that time may be easier to convey through film than in paintings. A painting is a still image captured in time from the mind of the artist. Isn't film many still images put together and shown through time. I believe painting, film, and time are actually one in the same. As I read your blog an interesting notion hit me. You mentioned that time may be easier to convey through film than in paintings. A painting is a still image captured in time from the mind of the artist. Isn’t film many still images put together and shown through time. I believe painting, film, and time are actually one in the same.

]]> By: Cynthia Boiter http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-5 Cynthia Boiter Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:10:00 +0000 http://web.sc.edu/wpmu/artsinstitute/2007/10/04/time-in-the-arts/#comment-5 Is time a bigger factor in film than painting, poetry, music, theater etc.? Time is no greater factor in film than it is in music, dance or theatre. Certainly, theatre and dance, whose canvases are the stage, the body and the space in which relationships are developed between the artists and the audience, ably depict the passage of time -- as it actually passes and as it passes interpretatively through the performance. With music, how many of us have been carried along, transported through time, as we follow a score, an opera or a symphony? Literary artists have the luxury of language with which to move their audiences from hour to season to era. But painting and time -- what a challenge to the artist! Thanks for this question -- as a patron of all art forms, it is one I will continue to ponder. Is time a bigger factor in film than painting, poetry, music, theater etc.?

Time is no greater factor in film than it is in music, dance or theatre. Certainly, theatre and dance, whose canvases are the stage, the body and the space in which relationships are developed between the artists and the audience, ably depict the passage of time — as it actually passes and as it passes interpretatively through the performance. With music, how many of us have been carried along, transported through time, as we follow a score, an opera or a symphony? Literary artists have the luxury of language with which to move their audiences from hour to season to era. But painting and time — what a challenge to the artist! Thanks for this question — as a patron of all art forms, it is one I will continue to ponder.

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