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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. |
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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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