Artist Project 4

 Arabesque by John Whitney
      













     




    John Whitney, Sr. (April 8, 1917 - September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and 
inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. The interesting film of him is 
Arabesque, made in 1975. The whirling, exotic flow of the music is in perfect synthesis with the quasi-
psychedelic blooming of colored forms. John Whitney had balanced science with aesthetics, and defined the 
computer as a legitimate medium for art.
    In this one, he uses mostly lines and dots underlying with music and motion. He uses computer to set these 
different. It is like he is making his art moving. Art now comes with color, sound, and motion.