Cinema and AVANT-GARDE art

Avant-garde wants to show and represent the life in the modern world (technology, speed, social movements, etc.) There are two different types of avant-garde art:



                        -Abstract paint: The central trait of abstract is that it does not portray realistic images.
                         

                                                              

                       - Surrealistic paint: The central trait of surrealistic art is that it wants to represent the                                dreams logic.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Cinema also was influeced by avant-garde art. We have abstract and surrealistic movies.                      In comparision with painting, cinema offers us the movement.

   An example of an abstract movie:

                 An example of a surrealistic movie: 

                   

George Méliès

George Méliès was a famous illusionist and magician that worked in Paris. When he discovered the cinemotograph, he thought that the new means had many posibilities as a show.
           Méliès used the cinemotograph to make magic tricks:
         

           


           Mèliés also filmed fantastic stories, with sers, actors and actresses, scripts, make up and wardrobe. He imagined fantastic plots, like a trip to the moon:

         Finally, he configured a new show conception with the cinematograph. Films had to be watched in a movie theatre with music in live. A pianist or an orchestra played accompaniment music with the images.
          For all these reasons,George Méliès is one of the greatest filmmakers in history.