Emptying a Bucket of Water
1887
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1887
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Emptying a Bucket of Water is a 1887 by Eadweard J. Muybridge, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A man pours water from a bucket in a series of quick snapshots. The scene is plain, almost ordinary, but broken into steps like a flipbook. Each image shows a tiny part of the motion, frozen in time. Muybridge made these to study how bodies move, working with scientists at the University of Pennsylvania. Doctors used them to spot problems in the way people walked or lifted. This was one of many actions he filmed — walking, jumping, pouring — all split into frames. The Cleveland Museum of Art holds this work today, where you can see how motion was broken down over 130 years ago. (Word count: 108)
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