Rudolf Arnheim
was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. In
all was the best personality in film studies, best known for his landmarks book
on silent cinema film art. He wrote major books on art, creativity which was
known widely. He slowly and gradually became scholar and the most famous person
in fields of art, history and gave tremendous contributions in the field of
cinema. Later in the field of aesthetics, perception and emotion proved to be
an important element in the field of film studies.
Later
on his work on visual arts brought change in films and media, and also
reassessing some changes in film theories, which proved to be a help in
refining the film as art and related concepts. His topics on film writings in
modernism, antipathy to sound and colour in film, formation of his early ideas
on films against social, political, methodology, digital media had a wide
discussion. Arnheim used to believe that most productive idea comes during
early twenties. And then they think on that idea and try to explore it. His
idea regarding life and the world was in patterns, shapes and colours of the
world. And hence he believed that to understand them in a better way, we need
to explore them. He gave lots of
importance to artwork and said it’s the visual thinking and ways to express and
help people understand the world and to show that the world changes according
to one’s mind.
There
were certain innovations he had dreamt of which includes: special camera that
films scenes in five language that to at the same time, technique
of recording sound on a thread, for editing by a dress-maker or tailor,
a telescope that radiated invisible ultraviolet rays you discover violations of
public moral built in cinema, discovery of film bacteria that infected the
audience and led to screen phobia, invention of close-up. Despite of his geographical
and cultural aspects, Arnheim was a famous person in the Italian cultural
during thirties. He was forced to take new escape leading to stop his passion
for cinema; however his contribution was much better.
Due
to his different perspectives, he had a humanistic approach and was not opposed
to scientific thought. He had a wide knowledge regarding technical innovations
in film making which them broaden lots of borders to aesthetics films and there
experience. He has helped the new generation of critics and directors to
broaden their horizons and move beyond idealism towards realistic.
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