Jan Lenica's checkered career has encompassed excursions into music, architecture, poster-making, costume design, children's book illustration, and all aspects of filmmaking. It is, however, for hi...
Jan Lenica's checkered career has encompassed excursions into music, architecture, poster-making, costume design, children's book illustration, and all aspects of filmmaking. It is, however, for his animation that he is best known, particularly his collage and "cutout" films, which have their roots in the art of Max Ernst and John Heartfield. The films have influenced the work of Jan Švankmajer and Terry Gilliam.
In the 1950s, his films with Walerian Borowczyk led an aesthetic revolution in Poland that sent reverberations all over the Eastern European animation scene. Before Lenica entered the scene, Polish animation consisted mainly of American-influenced character animation, over which the shadow of Walt Disney lugubriously hung, sometimes with vaguely political overtones on the fringe. Lenica and Borowczyk moved the avant-garde into the mainstream. They attempted to forge a new experimental cinema that would coalesce contemporary artistic practices such as abstraction, collage, and satirical surrealism without jettisoning commitment to the Marxist concepts of artistic integration of form and content and art for the masses. Often their films deal with alienation in a modern world, and the challenge of the detritus of history, figured in their use of old newspaper and postcards and the ironic confrontation with the "Great Masters" of painting which consume the protagonist of Once upon a Time . . . . In The House, a wide range of techniques illustrate a strange mechanical rite. The rough simplicity of their materials in these films conveys simultaneously the menace of an absurd disordered universe, and an affecting artlessness of execution.
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But imagine if disney could combine their artistry with a much more open and provocative attitude about what to say - the result would be incredibly mind-blowing.
They kind-of-sort-of did that with the recently-completed 'destino' which was planned for Fantasia originally as a collab with dali, but fell through due to the artists being unsure of how to keep up with dali's imagination and attitude. Imagine if disney had their own built-in surrealist and satirist auteurs ready to tear skin off.
as an example they used gerald scarffe as a designer for hercules...but imagine if they also adopted scarffe's scathing and uncompromising attitude as well...holy shit
Lame and weak, comparing it to Disney is somewhat cheesy. He almost made the animation born as an art form, and this "House" thing is simple "artistic" shit.
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They kind-of-sort-of did that with the recently-completed 'destino' which was planned for Fantasia originally as a collab with dali, but fell through due to the artists being unsure of how to keep up with dali's imagination and attitude. Imagine if disney had their own built-in surrealist and satirist auteurs ready to tear skin off.
I'm Polish and I'm proud.Animation is that kind of art where Poland have much to say.More than Walt Disney.