The animated art gif is dead — long live the Sticker GIF!

Re Modernist
Exposé Invisible
Published in
4 min readOct 30, 2019
Paul Jaisini Smoking art gif

The first victim of info newsfeed always moving and turning readers into viewers had been the Still image AKA photograph. Regardless its supreme quality the still image can’t do much for the Internet people.

The most ingenious artists, such as members of GIGroup who created non-stop the art gifs dedicated to Paul Jaisini had the hands-on experience on spreading their animated creations to the vast audiences of the Internet world.

They came to understanding of certain tactics to be effective in their humanitarian mission and most sincere desire to bring the high art, under Gleitzeit Manifesto, to the cyber audience since 1997.

They acted like “передвижники” — Peredvizhniki, travelling the Cyber lands and exhibiting their creations to people who knew little about art and used to resist the arts that considered almost a personal enemy.

Happy Halloween 2019

Now the people are all changed into being the creators, knowing a lot more about the arts, and growing to accept the art unless it costs money.

The Gig loaded onlinetheir animated creations since 2012, with daily publishing of slowly progressing to a wide variety of animated gifs based on the

Homage to Paul Jaisini hologram gif edition

The Gleitzeit art gifs evolved into the Avant-garde movement online and an absolutely unique precedent known on the Internet since pre Web 2.0.

With front pages of Google search being dominated with “Jaisini Gifs” we can see that now it is going on for second decade, the art action continued on, evolved and adopted to the new rules of the Internet world.

To explain the inspiration behind such a thing as “ Gleitzeit art gif” that accounts now to literally millions of the GIGroup artists’ signed and created animated artworks — we would need to know the source of their inspiration — the man, Paul Jaisini. What makes him so outrageously provocative, inspiring and hold authority over his own understanding of Invisible art, in a way that is not yet known to the rest of us?

3d hologram cube gif homage to paul jaisini

The Gig artists prefer to keep their mission known to the whole world, but not to Paul Jaisini, the only person, who is not aware of the visibility of his name and the ongoing homage movement in his honor for over 2 decades.

Returning to the topic — on the death of the animated Art Gif.
Fact is that the animation of the artwork is made by adding frames, making the image with additional frames — images with changing innovative effects. Some art gifs were made so visually appealing, that the fashion industry was influenced by the Gleitzeit “Jaisini” Art gifs found on the front pages of google search engine.

Official Art Gif homage to Paul Jaisini circa 2012–15

Artists, designers, all the people involved in the art “Aesthetics” have little or no geek in them, know nothing about programming, how to really operate Adobe Photoshop. The tech people on the other side have faith in technology and the art thing is beyond their sphere of knowledge or interest.

As of now, none of the social platform based on the visuals had been able to invent how to organize the visuals, how to avoid the long, glitchy loading of the gifs in particular, or high-res photos.

Here comes the inevitable conclusion — the blog with a lot of visuals, art gifs, etc will not be pleasant to navigate. But the art stickers are the new way of continued visual feast for your eyes! SHOW MUST GO ON!

The ongoing and widespread art gif movement in honor of Paul Jaisini who had destroyed his most divine artworks in 1994 to paint Invisible Paintings…

Not all artists could understand the concept behind the above statement and the need to be current and relevant. They will strive to create their animated masterpieces and proclaim the new art. But when it comes to the moment of the viewership — less and less eyes are looking at the images with loads of megabytes, white the process of viewing had changed to visual consumption.
For satiating the eyes with enough new images that one feels satisfied and informed on the latest, newest…

to be continued

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