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As the work of Muybridge, Degas, Dickinson and the Lumiére brothers developed the technology for moving pictures, the individual images played slowly were to influence later artists such as Marcel Duchamps (1887-1968). Now that this new technology could provide the mass market with cheap images of their loved ones, it killed the profession of the miniature portraitist overnight.
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The Royal Academy’s exhibition of the work of Edgar Degas showed that he used photography for reference and also experimented in capturing movement on a series of photographic images.Īt the same time as photography was developing, in France (then the centre of artistic endeavour and experimentation) the Impressionists had been developing new ways of painting they painted directly on to canvas on the open air (en plein air) and the major differences was how they portrayed everyday scenes and captured light. Cinematography was yet to be developed, and Muybridge developed a camera with faster shutter speeds in order to capture these images.
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The latter produced a unique image, whereas Fox Talbot’s process meant many copies of a single image could be produced.Įadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) experimented with capturing movement on film and in 1878 produced the first series of photographs showing a horse’s movements, proving that all four of the horse’s legs left the ground when galloping.
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īecause of the invention of photography, why would a young, early 20th century artist want to continue to paint something that even those with no artistic merit could capture on paper, or in the case of a daguerreotype, on a silvered copper plate. By the end of the century, the Lumiére brothers had invented the moving pictures, or as we know it, cinematography, although this invention is also credited to William Dickson who had moved to America in 1879. By the turn of the century photography was to become something that would be affordable by the comfortably off, and that anyone with little artistic skill could do. The skill was in the developing of the image. Likewise, landscapes and cityscapes were able to be captured in photographs and the first war photographer, Roger Fenton (1819-1869) documented the Crimean war (1853-1856). I have a photograph of my great grandfather that dates from the mid-1860s where he is dressed in top hat and smart morning dress. In England, Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and in France, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) developed forms of photography and within decades, the photographic portrait had become affordable by the growing middle class. Not least with the invention of photography in 1839 on both sides of the English Channel. The 19 th century saw rapid changes in technology brought about by the industrial revolution. The why and what is cubism are questions that are not so easy to answer. When? 1907 is the first year a work in this style is exhibited. In simple terms, the who is easy – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and George Braques (1882-1963) are credited with ‘inventing’ this style of art.