Pbs Learning Media: The Intimate, Indispensable Gif: The Art Assignment

Artist Toyin Odutola takes a new stance on portraiture, bringing a novel and ingenious approach to the classic art technique. Through this video, learn how culture and identity can be the driving inspiration for intimate artistic creation, and how a new emerging medium - the animated GIF - can be used to reflect these classic, high-cultured ideas. See how the history of the GIF and early cinema animation reflects a significant evolution in early 20th Century portraiture. [7:56]