#action analysis

Unpublished writings about Action Analysis and fragment of a handwritten script for a Material Action. The Getty Research Institute, Otto Mühl papers, circa 1918-circa 1997

Austrian artist Otto Muehl is best known as the co-founder of Viennese Actionism, a short but “violent” movement in 1960s Vienna that sought to develop an action based art. Muehl’s so-called Material Actions—in which the human body and the site of art-making were the surfaces for the production of art—were a radical departure from an object-based conception of art. Muehl was also the mastermind behind the controversial living experiment called Actionanalytische-Organisation (AAO), also known as the Friedrichshof Commune...

--   I was definitely not good at sketching from real life before college. I took a class on drawing from moving images and videos. Action Analysis, it was called. 

We did sketches based off slow motion videos of animals and people, then videos at normal speed, then we drew from models and eventually drew from live animals. 

It was a really beneficial experience that I’m glad I had. I can catch poses and moments much faster and remember them when I want to draw it later.

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