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Experiments Links 1923 Oskar Fischinger's first public screening was a showing of his Wax Experiments. (Germany) 1927 Oskar Fischinger exhibits R-1, A Form Play using five 35mm movie projectors and a slide projector. These pieces of history qualify as milestones in the animation industry during the 20th century [from source] (Jack Rutberg Fine Arts , West Hollywood) The idea of visual music, a synthesis of motion, color and sound, informs the entirety of 20th Century Modernism. One cannot grasp the meaning of abstract art without an understanding of the importance that related arts and sciences played upon it. Most of modernist abstraction, in fact, is a consideration of synthesis, an attempt to convey visually the interaction of the senses or the impact of modern media such as photography, cinema and radio upon our perceptions of the world. With the work of filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger we have a preeminent example of this drive toward synthesis. This current exhibit titled Optical Poetry , features more than forty paintings and drawings in conjunction with his pioneering abstract motion pictures. It is an excellent opportunity to examine an influential body of work that is seminal to what we mean when we say "Modern" art. (by Ray Zone) [from source] Submitted
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