Did any artists from before the era of photography capture the effect of motion blur?
A good place to look are images of spinning wheels. The spokes dissolve into a blur when it really gets spinning.
Painting the spokes that way is a remarkable choice, because it means allowing the impression to overrule the knowledge of the actual structure. Once the era of photography arrived, artists were fascinated by motion blur, but only a few have used it in their paintings.
It has shown up as a joke in this Charles Dana Gibson cartoon, and it also appears in the wildlife art of
Manfred Schatz.
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