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  Kinetic art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kinetic art is art that moves, or appears to move.
Kinetic energy, in scientific terms, is the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion, including the atomic level as in heat.
In kinetic art the motion may be physical, as in the kinetic sculpture of Naum Gabo and mobiles of Alexander Calder, or implied, as in the Op art paintings of Bridget Riley and others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinetic_art   (376 words)

  
 Kinetic sculpture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kinetic sculptures are sculptures that are designed to move.
The name is derived from the greek "kinesis" meaning motion, and related to the scientific term kinetic energy, which is the energy contained in a mass due to its motion.
Kinetic sculptures are often implemeted as installation art.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinetic_sculpture   (148 words)

  
 Running head: IS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Dada art is an arrangement of unrelated objects, but since they are familiar objects we are free to brainstorm and search for a meaning that explains their interrelationships.
The purpose of kinetic art is not simply to simulate motion but rather to subordinate other attributes, such as form and color, to the dominant element of motion.
Kinetic art never progressed further than this third stage until Zeki and Lamb (1994) studied the link between brain activity and viewing kinetic art.
hubel.sfasu.edu /courseinfo/sl02/kt2kineticart.htm   (3687 words)

  
 kinetic art
Movement may be mechanically powered (for example, by electricity, or air or water motion), or produced by the viewer moving past a work, or the work given the illusion of movement, such as op art, which appears to flicker.
Kinetic art sometimes merges with other types of avant-garde art, including performance art, computer-generated art, mixed media, and Installation art.
They named their work kinetic art in the ‘Realist Manifesto’, a manifesto of constructivism issued in Moscow.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0039885.html   (273 words)

  
 Tate | Glossary | Kinetic art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kinetic art is art that depends on motion for its effects.
A pioneer of Kinetic art was Naum Gabo with his motorised Standing Wave of 1919-20.
Kinetic art became a major phenomenon of the late 1950s and the 1960s.
www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=148   (125 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Kinetic art
Kinetic energy is energy that a body has as a result of its speed.
Op art is a term used to described certain paintings made primarily in the 1960s which exploit the fallibilty of the eye through the use of optical illusions.
Loss, 1964 for the boxer, see Bridgett Riley Bridget Louise Riley (born 1931) is a British painter, one of the foremost proponents of op art, art exploiting the fallibility of the human eye.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kinetic-art   (926 words)

  
 Kinetic art and kinetic sculpture by kinetic artist Clayton Whitehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Each kinetic sculpture is individually handcrafted and they range in size from tabletop scale to over-life-sized pieces suitable for large spaces or outdoor installations.
When asked how he came to create his kinetic sculptures, Clayton replies that all the experience he gained over thirty years in other vocations working with metals brought him to where he is today as a kinetic artist.
They define kinetic art as an assemblage or sculpture, made up of parts designed to be set in motion by an internal mechanism or an external force.
www.claytonart.com   (223 words)

  
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This is his long awaited update of the art and technology component in art – an increasingly important factor in that technological-informational change is consistently cited as the splintering element which instigated mainstream modernism mutating into what has been called, for lack of a better term, postmodernism.
Key to Frank’s initial thinking and activities as an aesthetician, an art theorist, an art exhibition organizer, teacher, and art critic was his encounter in the early 1950s with the kinetic artist (and author of the book Constructivism), George Rickey and Frank’s discovery of the subtle technical movements in Rickey’s mobile sculptures.
As regards virtual art, openness is stressed both from the point of view of the artists and their creativity and from that of the follow-up users in their reciprocating thoughts and actions.
www.eyewithwings.net /nechvatal/popper/FrankPopper.html   (1865 words)

  
 Kinetic Art - Kinetic Art Art
Kinetic art explores how things look when they move and refers mostly to sculptured works, made up of parts designed to be set in motion by an internal mechanism or an external stimulus, such as light or air.
The Kinetic art form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp, Naum Gabo, and Alexander Calder.
The expression Kinetic Art was used from the mid-1950s onward.
www.huntfor.com /arthistory/C20th/kineticart.htm   (609 words)

  
 Hanging Fine Art Mobiles By Joel Hotchkiss
Joel's kinetic art designs include the popular bottom viewing "Lumen" art mobile found under the Metal Frame and Fabric heading and the larger "Tri-Lumen" mobile located in the Larger Space category.
While the majority of Joel's kinetic art mobiles are intended for indoor enjoyment, he does offer several mobiles designed for outdoor environs.
Many of Joel's kinetic designs have been displayed in movies and TV productions including the Tri-Lumen mobile which appeared in The Witches of Eastwick, and the Ascent and Traverse art mobiles which were seen in Baby Boom.
www.artmobiles.com   (290 words)

  
 IIG - Kinetic Art
Kinetic Artists from around the world exhibit their art, exchange ideas, learn about exhibits, commissions and contests and meet with Galleries, Museums, Collectors, Architectural and Interior Design Firms, Auction Houses, the Press and others that are interested in their work.
The KAO database is the largest compendium of Kinetic Art Information, Photos and Videos in the world and gladly offer knowledge and research to international art collectors, galleries, museums, auction houses, art exhibitions, the press, interior design firms and architects.
Kineticus is a database of Kinetic Art and is devoted to the subject of kinetic art.
www.gizmology.org /Inventorium/mech_art.html   (377 words)

  
 City of Boston - ParkARTS
Kinetic motion can be so rapid that virtual volumes are produced or so slow that the motion is not immediately perceptible.
Kinetic art can integrate artistic, technical, social and ecological issues in ways that make it an exceptional educational tool within the community.
The selected kinetic artworks will be on exhibition in the selected neighborhood parks from November 1 to December 22, 2001, and then moved to the Boston Common to be shown during the First Night Celebration until January 31, 2002.
www.cityofboston.gov /parks/parkarts/translating.asp   (432 words)

  
 Leonardo On-Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After a series of kinetic compositions with light, he came to the conclusion that light needs to be structured (by means of lenses, masks, etc.) in order to create further visually interesting transformations through motion, colour and overlay.
Kinetic art and design, which make use of motion and light, are able to organize space and the human being in space by virtue of their physical forms and psychophysiological impacts on humans.
She focuses on his experiments, begun in the 1950s, with the visualization of music and poetry--not on the level of traditional illustration, but rather on that of synthesizing different artistic forms and genres on the basis of a united rhythmic pattern of spatial and temporal structures found by intuition.
mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/isast/journal/toc275.html   (1153 words)

  
 Kinetic art Art Style Information at Buy Art
Kinetic art is a general term for all art that involves actual moving pieces or the simulation of motion through use of artificial lighting, optical illusions or the use of a moving force of some kind.
The main goal of this art form is to interpret and represent motion, transience and the qualities of space.
From among the Kinetic artists that would later continue their innovations is the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, who built mechanisms so complex that the viewer could not follow all the elements in play.
www.buy-original-art.com /styles/kinetic_art.htm   (366 words)

  
 Architectural Review, The: Poetry in motion - kinetic art at the Hayward Gallery in London - Brief Article
Kinetic art is one of the most stimulating inventions of the twentieth century, yet it is rarely examined extensively.
The trouble with kinetic art is that you can't photograph it properly, and somehow videos and films of a kinetic work tend to reduce it from three dimensions to two.
All the early masters of kinetic work are represented: Calder (wonderfully elegant, but a bit rough in execution), Moholy-Nagy (a much better mechanic, but inclined to fussy effects), to Yves Klein (whose fire paintings certainly illustrate that the artist was very busy, but do little to recreate the action in your mind).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1243_208/ai_66191916   (747 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: kinetic art @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
KINETIC ART [kinetic art] term referring to sculptured works that include motion as a significant dimension.
The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp, Naum Gabo, and Alexander Calder.
Kinetic art is either nonmechanical, e.g., Calder's mobiles, or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László Moholy-Nagy, and Jean Tinguely.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:kinetica&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (120 words)

  
 Sculptor.Org - Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Kinetic Sculptures, kinetic sculptures - Ian Lane - Ian Lane worked in the Australian automotive industry for some 15 years as a professional engineer where he became responsible for all aspects of engineering for the company's automatic transmissions.
In these sculptures the kinetic element mirrors the shape of the stationary part of the form and as it turns it appears it will collide with its immobile counterpart but passes by to turn gracefully in the wind.
Kinetic Sculpture Portfolio - Kinetic sculptures represent an unusual aspect of our companies achievements.There are only a few studios in the world that produce this kind of hybrid sculpture.
www.sculptor.org /Sculptors/mobiles.htm   (2493 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kinetic Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kinetic Art, form of art, usually sculpture, in which movement is an integral part.
The agent of that movement may be a current of air, water, a...
Gabo and Pevsner were the first artists to use the word “kinetic” (moving) in connection with sculpture, in a manifesto they published in 1920....
uk.encarta.msn.com /Kinetic_Art.html   (114 words)

  
 Haber's Art Reviews: Motion, Trash Mirror, and a New Kinetic Art
Art has always a hard time with the most ordinary fact of life, change and its physical experience.
Museum visitors feel the encounter with art in space and time, as they jockey for space in crowded exhibitions like those in a photography by Thomas Struth.
Art constructs a reality that threatens to land on one's lap, and it becomes about that construction.
www.haberarts.com /helene.htm   (2261 words)

  
 Links: Kinetic Art
's rolling ball bculptures, kinetic works and complex machines are made of fine materials and are both - functional and aesthetic.
uses kinetic and sound sculpture to portray the complexities of social systems both biological and technological.
is known for his kinetic sculptures which include mobiles, magnet sculptures and rolling ball sculptures or ball machines.
www.kugelbahn.ch /3_link_kinetics.htm   (1113 words)

  
 HCBute
On May 7, 1976, she gave a talk at the Art Institute of Chicago.
I was a painter in Texas and lived on a ranch until my Houston art teacher arranged for a scholarship for me at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
I went to an art school where we did many things with lighting, but that wasn't adequate, an art medium per se.
www.geocities.com /~barneyoldfield/HCBute.html   (462 words)

  
 Rolling Ball Sculpture Kinetic Wire Art - photos and videos of elements, lifts, track & marbles.
My kinetic art RBS's are captivating, and draw you in immediately.
The larger sculptures with the ball lift is just the kind of kinetic art that - as an adult - you can enjoy as a child.
Adults and kids alike will be drawn into the colorful motion of the marbles crisscrossing each other as they work their way through the maze of track and elements.
www.rollingballsculpture.com   (403 words)

  
 High School: Kinetic Expressions
Kinetic art of the 20th century was a response from artists to increased levels of technology in society.
Alexander Calder designed large kinetic sculptures and mobiles with the wind as their only power source.
More recent kinetic sculptures have come to include light, technology, and electricity as a part of the artists' expression.
www.ncartmuseum.org /exhibitions/Flight/flight_plans/lessons/highschool_lesson3.html   (412 words)

  
 Ralfonso Monumental Kinetic Art for Modern Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I have been designing kinetic sculptures (sculptures that have a moving component) for more then 20 years, but only begun to actually build large scale sculptures for public places since 1999.
Due to my passion for Kinetic Art, I have also founded the KINETIC ART ORGANIZATION, in order to unite all Kinetic Artists around the world in a central clearing house for KA information.
With members in over 45 Countries KAO is now the largest kinetic art organization in the world.
www.ralfonso.com /kinetic_art.htm   (259 words)

  
 Leonardo On-Line: Brazilian Electronic Art - Kac/Palatnik interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Abraham Palatnik, the first Brazilian artist to explore the creative use of technology in art, continues to develop his research with light and movement.
During the 1960s, Palatnik started to produce art machines in which color pieces moved unexpectedly and harmonically as parts of a complex system of motors and gears.
On the occasion of the First International exhibition of Kinetic Art, the correct information was already evident in a diagram published by the Denise Rene Gallery in Paris.
mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/kac-palatnik.html   (1240 words)

  
 HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kinetic art is one of the most stimulating inventions...
The trouble with kinetic art is that you can't photograph it properly...
Motor on over to Arcata's Kinetic Sculpture Race, a three-day race/festival/mobile art show People-powered contraptions designed to travel 38 miles of land and ocean range from a bicycle-and-inner-tube combo to a buoyant...
www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?q=Kinetic+Art+art&refid=kunstnet   (558 words)

  
 Crunch and grind / Giant exploding inchworms are not considered strange in the Bay Area, the capital of kinetic art
On some level, he says, kinetic art can be seen as a response to the dominant Western culture.
He prefers to think in terms of the art world itself -- painting, sculpture and other traditional forms of visual expression, he says, are "played out" -- and leave it at that.
With mechanical art, there is nothing to sell: the sole purpose is the spectacle.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/20/DD281056.DTL   (994 words)

  
 Kinetic art lacking in movement - Tom Weber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I 'm no art expert, and my grasp of mechanical engineering is even less, but it is my unlearned opinion that any public sculpture that is designed to be kinetic should contain parts that actually move.
It defines kinetic art as a "style, especially in sculpture or assemblage, involving the use of moving, often motorized, parts, shifting lights, sounds, etc."
Art Morgan, an engineer who oversees the Railroad Street phase of the waterfront project, said he's wondered the same thing about the $213,000 sculptures - four square illuminated columns designed to give a stylistic impression of sails fluttering around a ship's mast.
www.bangornews.com /news/templates?a=98926&z=26   (610 words)

  
 Fine Art Directory at CornerMark
Art Reach Alliance was founded in 1992 as a grassroots organization and has grown into a community-based, multi-disciplinary organization serving artists and art patrons alike serving Stillwater, the greater St. Croix Valley and all of Washington County, Minnesota.
Here Kinetic Artists from around the world can market their art, exchange ideas, learn about exhibits, commissions and contests and meet with Galleries, Museums, Collectors, Architectural and Interior Design Firms, Auction Houses, the Press and others that are interested in their work.
In the heart of Beautiful Fort Lauderdale, the Las Olas Art Center has risen to become one of the fastest growing community events and gala celebration locations in South Florida with gatherings that include visits by local leaders, international artists, and artisians in-house for monthly exhibits, fund raisers and and incredible exhibits of fine art.
www.cornermark.com /fineart   (847 words)

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