Just when you thought the ancient GIF animation format is passe, or cheesy at best, someone hands you a surprise around the next corner.
Such is Micael Reynaud’s simple yet creative collection of animated GIFs. By the way, GIF is merely a file extension which ever since 1987 stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Back in those day GIFs were quite minimalistic. It is only in the recent years, probably due to the increased performance improvement in most surfers’ internet connections, that animated images of several Megabytes in file size have become acceptable for general viewing. Such are these GIF animations of Micael Reynaud as well.
Some people are amazed, others are critical. Does a creative assembly of existing artwork count as new art? What is your opinion?
In the West calligraphy is traditionally considered penmanship, however in Islamic countries it is an art. Persian (ancient Iranian) calligraphers are among the most sought out practitioners of this ancient form of art.
His eyesight must be beyond superb, as Ghetti has been carving pencil tips – without the help of a magnifying glass – for over 25 years.
If art has always been a part of human life, then the question “what is art” should (logically speaking) be almost as old as time itself. However, an additional couple of seconds contemplating this thought must bring us to the conclusion that cave people, for example, didn’t delve on whether their artistic expressions were “art” or not.