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	Len Lye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye (July 5, 1901 - May 15, 1980), was a New Zealand sculptor, artist, writer and film-maker.
		Lye utilised the process to combine existing fl and white film footage and photostencils into brilliant colour imagery.
		Lye continued to experiment with the possibilities of direct film-making to the end of his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Len_Lye (653 words)

	Len Lye Characteristics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Len Lye was indeed an eccentric and innovative multi-media artist.
		Lye was one of the first to scratch, paint and stencil directly on celluloid thus making a film without a camera.
		Lye¹s 1957 Rhythm was a montage he did for Chrysler where he was asked to take 1-_ hours of film footage of the assembling of a car and cut it down to 1 minute while conveying the same message in the original.
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/fva/L/LLye_char.html (312 words)

	Queensland Art Gallery - Len Lye
		Len Lye ― one of New Zealand's most inventive avant-garde artists ― is celebrated in a comprehensive exhibition that opens at the Queensland Art Gallery from noon Friday 17 May.
		Lye, well known for his remarkable innovations from 1920s to 1980, was a unique personality and an artist whose ideology was 'exploration' and 'transformation' in both life and art.
		Len Lye is a joint exhibition between the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, supported by the Len Lye Foundation.
	www.qag.qld.gov.au /about_us/media/archived/2002/len_lye (387 words)

	AGNSW: Len Lye
		Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901, and left for Australia in 1921.
		Len Lye died in 1980, at the age of 78.
		Lye was driven to use whatever means — words, film, music, metal, kinetics, photography, batik — in order to realise a singular vision of a universal life force which he recognised as an appropriate subject for and object of art.
	www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au /media/archives_2002/len_lye (913 words)

	Len Lye Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Len Lye (1901-1980) was born in New Zealand, lived in Australia, Samoa, London and finally New York.
		Lye was fascinated by a theory he developed evoked by a question from an art teacher challenging him to find his own art theory.
		Lye¹s numerous influences that ranged from Freud to Polynesian ritual dances to Jazz and his methods of expressing his visions made him an eccentric and captivating artist that has inspired many artists of his generation and today.
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/fva/L/LLye_bio.html (306 words)

	Len Lye - The Home-Coming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lye associated this area with the mental powers that lay outside rationality - it was his conception of the 'unconscious'.
		Lye's teaching challenged these criteria and encouraged an interest in doodling and also in children's art, tribal art, prehistoric cave art, graffiti, cracks and stains and other types of raw texture and bold calligraphy.
		Lye was far from being a nationalist and he was not naively optimistic about New Zealand: however, he could see the possibility of 'utopian experiments' here if we used our resources wisely.
	www.art-newzealand.com /Issues11to20/Lye06.htm (2417 words)

	Canyon Cinema, Inc.
		Len Lye, pioneer kinetic artist, sculptor and experimental filmmaker, died in May 1980 in New York.
		Len Lye lost interest in gaining public screenings for his work, and went "underground." These films were therefore known only to a small group of filmmakers and a few audiences.
		Len Lye was supplied with stock footage of the assembly of the car.
	www.canyoncinema.com /L/Lye.html (636 words)

	Len Lye
		Referring to Len Lye's "singularity", this book opens with a quote from painter Julian Trevelyan: "He was like a man from mars who saw everything from a different viewpoint, and it was this that made him original".
		The portrait of Lye on the front cover - standing confidently facing the camera, with one hand on hip and laughing uproariously - introduces the reader to a subject who is always, even in his early and less confident years, larger than life.
		It has already gone into a second print run, suggesting that Lye is now accepted as a national hero (a New Zealander who "made it" in the outside world), as well as a major figure in twentieth century art.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev0703/ibbr15.html (439 words)

	Len Lye: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		New plymouth is the port and main city in the taranaki region on the west coast of the north island of new zealand....
		Len Lye, edited by Jean Michel Bouhours, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Len Lye: Happy Moments Text and Images By Len Lye, edited by Roger Horrocks, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/len_lye.htm (929 words)

	Len Lye - Christchurch Art Gallery - Exhibitions Archive 2003
		Len Lye (1901-1980) was a filmmaker, kinetic sculptor, painter, doodler, genetic theorist and experimental prose writer.
		Lye was born in Christchurch and grew up in Wellington, returning to Christchurch in 1919 to study briefly under Archibald Nicoll at the Canterbury College of Art.
		Lye’s first kinetic sculptures date from when he was a student in Wellington, but it was not until 1961 at the age of 57 that he turned seriously to the creation of dramatic, large scale kinetic sculpture.
	www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz /Exhibitions/2003/LenLye (649 words)

	Len Lye: a biography - Auckland University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Len Lye (1901-1980) began as a unsettled working-class kid with limited prospects and became a leading modernist artist in London and New York, mixing with the talented and famous and involved in a great range of innovative artistic projects.
		Lye was a member of many important art groups, starting with the Seven and Five Society in London in the 1920s and the international Surrealist movement in the 1930s.
		Lye's art has often been surrounded by controversy -- from the noisy mixture of cheering and booing that greeted his first direct films to the debates today about the setting-up of his giant sculptures in public places.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/aup/book/len-lye-a-biography.cfm (2088 words)

	Len Lye - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Atheist from childhood, Len's body went to a New York hospital, and a wake was held in his studio.
		Len was more than content with the shape the gift of his works to New Zealand gave his life.
		Len is beautifully serene - yet he is also full of the awareness that he is dying, and he starts delivering important messages to me as soon as I walk in the door.
	www.art-newzealand.com /Issues11to20/Lye02.htm (964 words)

	Gow Langsford Gallery \| Len Lye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leonard Charles Huai Lye was born in Christchurch in 1901.
		Lye's early work was strongly influenced by aboriginal art and was well informed about Futurism, modernist primitivism and the various other avant-garde tendencies of the time.
		Before his death in 1980 Lye gave permission for his large-scale works to be constructed posthumously and held in trust by the Len Lye Foundation.
	www.gowlangsfordgallery.com /artists/atom/llye.asp (1044 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Lye had only one meeting with Willkie, who died in October that year, but he was so impressed with New York and its art scene that he decided to stay on.
		Lye had left New Zealand in 1925 because he was completely isolated in his artistic interests, but he had continued to write about early experiences.
		Lye is still a controversial figure in New Zealand art, regarded by some as an outsider whose art has little relevance to the local tradition, but seen by supporters of experimental work as an important role model.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=5L24&QuickSearch=true (1472 words)

	My Wellington \| Media Studies \| Victoria University Of Wellington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in Christchurch in 1901, Lye moved to London in 1926 and then on to New York in 1944, where he remained until his death in 1980.
		Lye’s films have won him international awards and his uncompromising and radical thinking drew him into the company of many famous creative people, including Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Surrealists.
		A committed experimenter, Lye was known for his unwillingness to accept the idea of impossibility.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /mywellington/arts-culture/WaterWhirler.htm (389 words)

	In and Out of History - A Century of Len Lye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Matthews established a close collaboration with Lye who was so impressed by the quality of the work and the support of the gallery that he decided to leave his collection to New Zealand, with a non-profit Foundation to administer it and the Govett-Brewster to exhibit it.
		Initially the Lye Foundation interpreted the trust deed to mean that no work should be sold outside New Plymouth and this embargo is said to have been a factor in the Auckland City Art Gallery's decision to seek a kinetic sculpture by George Rickey as an alternative.
		Lye's work continued to be studied by experimental film and video makers, and meanwhile his imagery influenced music videos and rock concert posters.
	www.art-newzealand.com /Issue101/lye.htm (3560 words)

	Martin Rumsby : Writing : LEN LYE: A Biography
		LEN LYE: A Biography tells the life story of an artist who was able to transcend the typical neuroses that afflicted modernist artists (plus loss, poverty, war and exile) to produce a diverse body of paintings, films, sculptures and writing.
		Lye's story is that of an artist taking his vision and inspiration from a distant regional location and finding a place for it in the art centers of western culture.
		Lye became interested in genetics, particularly DNA, and began to mine the biomorphic images from his paintings and doodles as a source for his theory of the workings of the Old Brain.
	www.rumsby.net /martin/writing/len-lye-biography (2237 words)

	Len Lye at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in Christchurch in 1901 and largely self-educated, Lye was driven by a life-long passion for motion, energy and the possibility of composing them as a form of art.
		Lye's interests took him far from New Zealand; after sojourns in the South Pacific, Lye moved to London and then New York, where he became known as an intensely creative film-maker and kinetic sculptor.
		Lye's sculptures are also held in the collections of several major art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Whitney Museum in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
	www.govettbrewster.org.nz /lenlye (326 words)

	Len Lye: Experimental Filmmaker, Sculptor, Photographer and Writer - Art Gallery of New South Wales - Absolutearts.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1992 Len Lye was honored for his originality as one of the hundred great innovators of 20th century art alongside Picasso, Duchamp and Brancusi in a major exhibition in Bonn, Germany.
		Lye's kinetic sculptures are intriguing and quite beautiful and three of his works are included.
		Len Lye's range of talents and inventiveness, combined with a lively personality and a remarkable life story, make him a compelling subject.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/12/04/29420.html (465 words)

	The wit of the wobble: Len Lye and the metaphysics of eccentricity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Len Lye (1901-1980) was one of the most important avant-garde figures ever to emerge from New Zealand.
		Lye is best known for his direct film technique, in which an artist scratches or draws on the celluloid.
		I doubt that Lye's intention was to ridicule phrenology, the misguided vogue of the enlightenment, but rather to play with recognition, to allow the mechanical process to simplify a form up to a point before which it becomes unrecognisable.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/19/lye_wit.html (1066 words)

	Entertainment news, gossip & muNew Zealand's source for entertainment news, gossip & music, movie & book reviews on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As a boy Len Lye would pedal his clapped-out bike around Wellington delivering newspapers to the various homes that clung like limpets to the side of the hills.
		While Lye spent his formative years in Wellington, New Plymouth has become the home of his collection, a collection which is looked after by both The Len Lye Foundation and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
		Lye was an artist's artist and well known and admired in the small group that he moved in and today the situation isn't vastly different.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3513812a14297,00.html (1163 words)

	Len Lye - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Len Lye - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lye, Len (1901-1980), New Zealand-born American sculptor, motion-picture director, painter, and pioneer in experimental art forms involving motion....
		Dawson, Len, born in 1935, American football player, who guided the Kansas City Chiefs to three American Football League (AFL) crowns.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Len_Lye.html (75 words)

	R E A L T I M E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lye, one of the first to experiment with direct painting onto celluloid, is heralded with birthing the music video.
		When, in 2004, the Lye Foundation chose to withdraw permission to screen the films, both Pestorius and Kuepper wanted to continue the project, and so a number of artists were contacted to produce video works.
		Music For Len Lye is both a homage and a dedication to Len Lye (the music is ‘for’ Len), and also a description (the music began as scores for Lye films).
	www.realtimearts.net /rt69/zuvela.html (898 words)

	'The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid'
		For Lye, this 'selfness' was anchored to the body and to bodily weight and motion, which explained his preoccupation with the kineticism of film and moving sculpture.
		Lye spent two years in Samoa 'to work on kinetic constructions', but he found the island life so intoxicating it was difficult to apply himself to his art.
		In his writing Lye asserted his aim was to depart from an inhibiting film narrative tradition set in place by D.W. Griffith in favour of one based on the kinaesthetic potential of film, which he thought was achieved in some animated cartoons (UPA, not Disney).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/19/lye.html (2631 words)

	Capital Times
		The sculpture, to be installed in Frank Kitts Park on March 7, was built by the Len Lye Foundation, a non-profit society which acts to conserve, reproduce and promote the works of the late Kiwi artist and filmmaker.
		Lye was born in Christchurch but spent his formative years in Wellington.
		He is confident Lye would have been happy with the end product – a 12 metre quivering, oscillating and revolving wand from which jets of water shoot.
	www.captimes.co.nz /web/news/32/n/576/Windspired.boss (223 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Len grew up opposed to what he saw as the intolerance of all religions.
		Len produced a series of uncompromising avant-garde films, including Free radicals (1958), which won the $US5,000 second prize from 400 entries in an important experimental film-making competition associated with the Brussels World Fair.
		Len Lye died on 15 May 1980 in Warwick, New York, survived by his wife and the children of his first marriage.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=5L24&QuickSearch=true (1472 words)

	Queensland Art Gallery - Len Lye
		Len Lye has been described as being 'like a man from Mars who saw everything from a different viewpoint'.
		A New Zealand-born artist who moved to England in the 1920s and then New York in the 1940s, Lye achieved recognition as one of the most innovative avant-garde artists of his era.
		A joint exhibition between the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, supported by the Len Lye Foundation.
	www.qag.qld.gov.au /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/2002/len_lye (113 words)

	The Wind Wand,New Plymouth,Taranaki,New Zealand Len Lye's Idea of Tangible Motion is born
		Our Wind Wand is the result of many years of Lye's experiments with metal tubes which he hoisted aloft in the breezes of New York city where he worked.
		Lye went on to create a vast array of very unique art, pioneering new forms of film making and kinetic sculptures.
		Lye spent most of his life dedicated to his idea of ‘making movement real’ or ‘ Tangible Motion Sculpture’ as he called it and wished for the continuation of the research and construction of his unfinished works.
	www.windwand.co.nz /ourwindwand.htm (603 words)

	Len Lye, Rhythms — iota
		Len Lye “There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.”
		Len Lye was a major figure in experimental filmmaking as well as a leading kinetic sculptor and an innovative theorist, painter and writer.
		Len Lye “All of sudden it hit me – If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing a composing motion.
	www.iotacenter.org /store/videos/lye/view (193 words)

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