Comments for "Clay Animation Artworks: "Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase"" Video at VideoSift.com

By firefly

firefly (http://firefly.videosift.com) — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:22:05 -0700

by Joan C. Gratz.

By Doc

Doc (http://www.videosift.com/member/Doc) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:20:08 -0700

This is truly stunning. Just to be able to copy the style and spirit of the originals is a tour de force, but creating the transitions and flow was just incredible.

My only regret is that I have but one vote to give for this video.

By gfxmonk

gfxmonk (http://www.videosift.com/member/gfxmonk) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:26:10 -0700

That was quite awesome... Looks like regular animation though, I find it hard to believe it's clay...

By firefly

firefly (http://firefly.videosift.com) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:50:33 -0700

Yes, it's really clay. It won an Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1993:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104908/

By ender

ender (http://www.videosift.com/member/ender) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:22:46 -0700

Very impressive!!

By oohahh

oohahh (http://oohahh.videosift.com) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:41:39 -0700

I definitely want the "Vote twice" feature for this video. This is Best Of material

By lisacat

lisacat (http://lisacat.videosift.com) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:08:28 -0700

*promote

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:08:30 -0700

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 29th June 2006 (promotion called by gold star member lisacat)

By firefly

firefly (http://firefly.videosift.com) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:32:29 -0700

woohoo! thanks lisacat!

By lisacat

lisacat (http://lisacat.videosift.com) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:10:49 -0700

thank you for posting it firefly! I've watched this again and again

By Leglaw

Leglaw (http://www.videosift.com/member/Leglaw) — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:57:45 -0700

Here's a list of some of the artists and their paintings:

Leonardo gives Vinci: The Gioconda
Marcel Duchamp: Naked lowering stairs, L.H.O.O.Q.
Van Gogh: Picture of Patience Escalier, the Starred Night, Self-portrait
PAUL Gauguin: Self-portrait, Spirit of the death
Henri Matisse: Self-portrait
Edvard Munch: Grito
Oskar Kokoschka: The fiancèe of the wind
Picasso: Self-portrait, the great swimmer, Arlequin, Picture of Gertrude Stein
Gray Joan:
Joan Watched:
Frida Kahlo: Self-portrait
Diego Rivera: Self-portrait
Diego Vela'zquez: Picture of the Pope Innocent X
Salvador Dalí: Self-portrait
René Magritte: The collective invention, The Rape, False Mirror.
Paul Klee: Self-portrait
Francis Bacon: Self-portrait, Study after the Picture of the Pope Innocent X of Vela'zquez, Three for Studies Figures AT the Base of to Crucifixion
Andy Warhol: Marilyn Monroe Diptych, Shot Orange Marilyn
Wassily Kandinsky:
Willem de Kooning:
Marc Chagall: I and the Village
Gustav Klimt:
Max Ernst: Ubu Imperator
Roy Lichtenstein: To turn around