everybody likes Muybridge!

the Connection to History!

Mubridge's art follows the flow of calm and cheerful nature that the 19th century art shows so often. The big wars and revolutions have ended and people want to relax and not care about death or deep meanings in art. Art is interesting to the eyes or simply for fun during these times. Muybridge makes simple animations of people doing simple things. People analyze his animations but they look for scientific things, there's no thinking about deep emotions or truth or pain or such.

Muybridge was also something of a romantic. In his free time he took stunning pictures of Western American valleys and gulches, showing people a more fantastic view of their home than they believed was there. The western part of the US was not as civilized as it is now, allowing the feeling of vast expansiveness to rule his photography.

In the 19th century life was relatively good and no one really minded. Eadweard Muybridge was no exemption, this piece in particular shows it. It is casual and comic. He could have edited out the pigeon easily but he just didn't and no one is against it. This was how people felt in the 19th century.






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