The Dancers               The Muybridge Series

THE DANCERS (CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW THE COLLECTION)

This collection of six oil paintings is the beginning of a series I am doing based on a film I made of two professional dancers performing naked in my studio.

From several still frames, I did a great many drawings, studies and small colour sketches to use as source material. I have not reinvented any of the lines, shapes or forms but selected only those I felt were the essential ones and put two, often three, overlapping positions together to try and describe the energy and rhythm of their movements. Although I have kept to the realistic gradations of light and shade, I have deliberately used my own set of colours to create a visual interpretation of the music.

THE MUYBRIDGE SERIES (CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW THE COLLECTION)

These are the latest paintings in a series I have been doing for several years based on the early photographic work of Eadweard Muybridge who made time-lapse studies of the naked human figure in motion.

Michael Milburn Foster is an artist who has spent almost all his life drawing and painting as well as, for the past twenty seven years, working as a film director. Now he is continuing to work with all these three disciplines together.

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