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The National Gallery is collaborating with Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design on 'Transcriptions: Animation’, an innovative new project which involves postgraduate animation students producing short films inspired by the Gallery’s collection.
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From the film-maker:
This painting made me think in terms of rhythm rather than storyline. There are two opposing characters, Beauty and Old Age, linked by a third one, Time. (Part of the cycle where everything that is beautiful gets old and dies, and then something beautiful is born again.) It inspired me to set a pace where an action starts, stops, and then starts all over again. I looked for that contrast in my animation, a constant change of rhythm and attitude.
Mariano Mendiburu Elica
A piece inspired by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty, 1746
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN