Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Uncover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney

At a time when a lot of ani­ma­tion was con­sumed with lit­tle anthro­po­mor­phized ani­mals sport­ing white gloves, Oskar Fischinger went in a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent direc­tion. His work is all about danc­ing geo­met­ric shapes and summary types spin­ning round a flat fea­ture­much less again­floor. Consider a Mon­dri­an or Male­vich paint­ing that strikes, typically in time to…