The Strike That Changed Animation
<p>The impetus to research and write this story started with stumbling upon Genndy Tartakovksy’s <em>Star Wars: Clone Wars </em>(2003) hidden deep inside Disney+ and wondering what made the show so gobsmackingly brilliant.</p>
<p>Television cartoons are generally not considered Art with a capital ‘A’.</p>
<p>However, it is my contention that Genndy Tartakovsky’s interpretive riff on the <em>Star Wars</em> concept deserves to be considered in the same league as Da Vinci’s <em>Mona Lisa</em>, Michelangelo’s <em>David</em>, or Jane Austen’s <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Genndy Tartakovsky: An overview of his life and work</strong></p>
<p>As I dug deeper into the history of Tartakovksy’s life and work, I wondered if his visual sensibility was influenced by an early childhood in Russia and Italy where highly innovative modern art movements (like Constructivism and Futurism, respectively) have arisen.</p>
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<p>An example of Futurism: Umberto Boccioni’s<br />
<em>Unique Forms of Continuity in Space</em> (1913, cast 1972)<br />
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<p>Genndy Tartakovsky was born on the 17th January, 1970 in Moscow, Russia. His father was a dentist and his mother a teacher. Concerned about their future in Russia as Jews, the family immigrated first to Italy (Tartakovsky credits his interest in art being seeded there) before eventually arriving in the United States. The family settled in Columbus, Ohio before moving to Chicago.</p>
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