Blurring
Blurring is an artistic technique that was created by Wolf Vostell from 1961 onwards . Vostell enlarged photographs from magazines and newspapers on photo canvas (emulsified canvas), mounted them on stretcher frames and smeared them with a mixture of turpentine and carbon tetrachloride . This mixture is applied to a cloth or cotton wool to smear the photographs.
The motion blur in the photo makes speed and movement visible
Blurred town hall in Marburg during the light show for the shopping evening Marburg b (u) y Night (2016). The historic seat of the city administration, which has been moved towards the Christmas tree, stands for the illusion of staging and the transience of the only briefly beautiful pictures on the marketplace soaked in mulled wine
When taking pictures , the photographer can consciously create a blurring by choosing a relatively long exposure time for a subject moving sideways (on the contrary: he follows the camera and creates a blurred background).
See also
literature
- Hubertus Gaßner (Ed.): Henrike Mund, Übermalt. Blurred. Erased: The portrait in the 20th century . Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9380-0233-9 .
Web links
- Wolf Vostell, Kennedy before Corham , 1964 (blurring)
- Painted over. Blurred. Extinguished. The portrait in the 20th century . Exhibition in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2011