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kinetic art

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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`)
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, Naum Gabo Gabo, Naum (noum gä`bō), 1890–1977, Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner .
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, and Alexander Calder Calder, Alexander (kôl`dər), 1898–1976, American sculptor, b.
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. 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 .
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, or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László Moholy-Nagy Moholy-Nagy, László (lä`slō mô`hôlē-nŏ`dyə)
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, and Jean Tinguely Tinguely, Jean (zhäN tăNglē`), 1925–91, Swiss artist.
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. The latter sort of kineticism developed in response to an increasingly technological culture.

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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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