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Using the Animations

Our Animation and Audio treatments are designed for users with some useful sight. Each animated sequence is designed to take the user through an artwork step-by-step, avoiding overwhelming detail by building up the elements of the image slowly and gradually.

 

Navigating the Animations

You can navigate through the animations in two ways, using either your keyboard or a mouse. If you are a keyboard user, move forward and back through the animation using the Right and Left cursor keys. Pressing the Up cursor key will cause you to exit the animation and return to the Artworks Menu page. Mouse users will see these keys replicated at the bottom of the animation. Clicking on them has exactly the same effect as using the keys themselves. If you are using a browser other than Internet Explorer for Windows, you may need to click on the animation to activate the keyboard. You will receive a reminder of this information prior to entering the animation.

If you are using a mouse, but still require additional help with navigation, the buttons are set to 'speak' their function when the mouse passes over them. You can switch the Talking Buttons option off by clicking the checkbox.

We recognise that accessing information purely from a Flash movie can be disorientating, but hope to have designed our animated pages in such a way as to facilitate relatively smooth transitions out of and back into the HTML pages to which they link.

 

i-Map: The Everyday Transformed

Interior with a Picture by Patrick Caulfield Patrick Caulfield
1936-2005
Interior with a Picture
1985-6
The Uncertainty of the Poet by Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico
1888-1978
The Uncertainty of the Poet
1913
Linen by Natalya Goncharova Natalya Goncharova
1881-1962
Linen
1913
Still Life with a Beer Mug by Fernand Léger Fernand Léger
1881-1955
Still Life with a Beer Mug
1921-2
I was a Rich Man's Plaything by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
1924-2005
I Was a Rich Man's Plaything
1947
The Handsome Pork Butcher by Francis Picabia Francis Picabia
1879-1953
The Handsome Pork Butcher
c1924-6, c1929-35
xxx Kurt Schwitters
1887-1948
Opened by Customs
1937-8
 

i-Map: Matisse Picasso

Sample from Matisse's Snail animation, part of the original i-Map project The original project, which focuses on four pairs of works by Matisse and Picasso, is also available for you to explore.
 
 
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