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kinetic art

art, esp sculpture, that moves or has moving parts
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kinetic art

[kə′ned·ik ′ärt]
(graphic arts)
The use of material objects in motion to produce an artistic effect.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Caption: The Yaacov Agam Museum of Art has an asymmetric canopy over the entrance and exhibits works of the Kinetic Art
Today, the 62-year old Dutch artist is well-known for his contemporary interpretation of kinetic art that combines traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture with engineering and latest digital technology.
The first thing you encounter in 'Action-Reaction: too Years of Kinetic Art' is a full-size version of Heinz Mack's Mechanisches Ballett (1966-2015).
While Monir's kinetic art installations are another pit stop in the artist's ever-changing experimentations with mixed media, you can see her roots in Islamic cosmology, mathematics and Sufi mysticism.
The exhibition continues Farmanfarmaian's exploration of math, Islamic cosmology, and Sufi mysticism (the title comes from a Rumi poem) but also introduces an entirely new practice for the artist, as she experiments with kinetic art for the first time.
Avoiding any one category, her reflective and poetic art is rooted in a personal and singular interpretation of Pop and kinetic art, expanding toward conceptual and process-related ways of working.
What is kinetic art? Kinetic artis art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.
And so, when I ran into Bernie Lubell at the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Contraption exhibit, fiddling with his kinetic art installation "Theory of Entanglement," it became clear that Lubell's "machine," at once sophisticated and fragile, is far more human-like than the traditional art forms I grew accustomed to encountering in a museum setting.
Or perhaps it's the movie theater, XBox 360 station, or kinetic art installation of 1,216 aluminum and copper raindrops.
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