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kinetic art, term referring to sculptured works that include motion as a significant dimension. The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp Duchamp, Marcel (märsĕl` düshäN`) ..... Click the link for more information. , Naum Gabo Gabo, Naum (noum gä`bō), 1890–1977, Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner . ..... Click the link for more information. , and Alexander Calder Calder, Alexander (kôl`dər), 1898–1976, American sculptor, b. ..... Click the link for more information. . Kinetic art is either nonmechanical, e.g., Calder's mobiles mobile (mō`bēl), a type of moving sculptural artwork developed by Alexander Calder in 1932 and named by Marcel Duchamp . ..... Click the link for more information. , or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László Moholy-Nagy Moholy-Nagy, László (lä`slō mô`hôlē-nŏ`dyə) ..... Click the link for more information. , and Jean Tinguely Tinguely, Jean (zhäN tăNglē`), 1925–91, Swiss artist. ..... Click the link for more information. . The latter sort of kineticism developed in response to an increasingly technological culture. kinetic art art, esp sculpture, that moves or has moving parts How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Kinetic Eye: Optical and Kinetic Art, 1950-1975 Running parallel to the railway track, the building is a mysterious luminous object in the landscape, its upper part apparently a solid piece of kinetic art. The result is a kind of kinetic art experience," he says, "a motion poem, comparable to watching thoughts. |
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