I've recently come to love some of the abstract art used in 50's and 60's animation, especially the work of UPA from this time. I suppose the use of abstract background art would have started off as a cost saving measure, after all many of the backgrounds featured in animations such as Gerald McBoing Boing are stripped down to basic lines and shapes. However I prefer to think of it as a different form of expression with the same aesthetic value of any fully animated work and it could be argued that those animators who used this style where doing what the cubist's such Picasso had with painting.
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