Naiara - Film's time and space influence on painting
How do the works April and Album represent
time and space?
The composition of both paintings’ composition relies
on serpentine paths and repetition of human figures to create a continuum sense
of movement that represents continuum time and regularity/irregularity throughout
space.

Image: April, by Maurice Denis/ WikiArt - Public Domain
The Album, a painting by Edouard Vuillard, has a similar
narrative. Here, seven women are placed throughout a continuous parlor that
occupies the 2 meters-long rectangular paint. However, the
printings in their clothes and the cloudiness of the vegetation that surrounds
them make it hard for the viewer to distinguish forms and seem to erase boards
between the characters and the environment. In this case, it is the fusion
between the characters and the surroundings that create a sense of continuity
in the image and the arabesque patterns keep eyes moving edge to edge.
Image: The Album, Edouard Vuillard / MetMuseum
Question
The examples in this chapter show how film and dance intervened in Modern
art, influencing painters to abandon an optically fixed perspective that was
dominant in the then mainstream tradition of Abstractionism. Does the same
logic applies to DH and Humanities in general? Is the advent of this new field of
studies bringing a new look that is creating not only the new methodologies but
worldviews and ways to approach even the most traditional research topics?
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