Movement in Art

The first piece of art that I've chosen is from a very important Brazilian architect called Oscar Niemeyer. He belongs to Modernism, and his style has lots to do with curves. The work below is a cathedral that he did in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, and its shape for me is almost moving. You can feel the extension of each column going to the sky…

The second piece that I’ve chosen is from a very important Brazilian artist called Tomie Ohtake. She is Japanese, but she came to Brazil around 1930 and naturalized Brazilian later on. She is a painter and also sculptor and I find that hers sculptures really shows movement. Her art is abstract, but her paintings don’t usually show much movement as her sculptures do. The monument above is at São Paulo – Latin American biggest city and where I live – in the most important avenue of the city – just next to my house… come visit me!

The third piece is from Pablo Picasso and it’s called “Weeping Woman”. For me, movement is a primary impression on cubism in general. Seeing one image from several perspectives and putting all together in one “moment” is almost like when I watch a stop-motion animation – I can slice the movement.

Finally, the fourth piece is a futurist painting called “Charge of the Lancers” by Umberto Boccioni, and it portrays the movement of a horse. Futurism is all about movement in its essence, as we know… I have the same feeling in this painting: it looks like a slicing of the movement, and all the steps were put together in one picture.