A Conversation for Animation
Animation, art or not?
Mike Lansdell Started conversation Apr 2, 2003
Just to be nice and Lib Dem about it, Animation as Art really does depend upon the percievers (I apologise for my spelling!) point of view. If they don't like it because of its popular culture image they are basing a view on a very narrow vision of animation, and probably havent been priviliged enough to experience the incredible films of Jan Svankmajer (Dimensions Of Dialouge), The Bolex Brothers (Tom Thumb(!)), The Brothers Quay (The Streets Of Crocodiles) and many others. Oh, and of course Otomo Katsuhiro, Hayao Miyazaki and the rest of the very talented Japanese animators.
I'm going slightly off point, to dismiss animation as not being art because it has a wide use in the mass culture is like saying Andy Warhol made finger paintings (comparison is relevent here as Andy Warhol's grand aim for art was to make it available to everyone, hence the soup and wall paper and celebreties. I wasn't just being silly).
Of course Monsters Inc. Doesn't really deserve to be called art but I suppose any product of creativity can be well argued as being so.
Oooh, that could make a good entry...
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