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by Nick on August 17th, 2009
Kinetic art is art that moves. The first kinetic sculpture is Naum Gabo's "Standing Wave" from 1919. One of the legendary exhibitions about Kinetic art was the show "Rörelse i Konsten" (Movement in art), curated by Pontus Hulten for Moderna Museet Stockholm in 1961. It was also shown at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The catalog has an extreme oblong format, and it contains a good overview of the history of kinteic art up to 1961, including historic predesseors such as futurist painting, early comic strips, etc.
Some very important kinetic artists are Len Lye, Alexander Calder, Jean Tinguely, and George Rickey.
Duchamp was an important stimulating factor, not only through his cubist-Futurist paintings such as "Nude DEscending a Staircase", but also through his wiritings. for instance, Duchamp coined the term "Mobiles" for Calder's suspended sculptures.
by anguilla on August 16th, 2009
Duchamp's style of implied movement is called "Cubism." Kinetic art is art that actually moves.
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Whew! I'm glad you cleared that up for me, Nick. It's difficult to understand kinetic art because I have looked at pictures of it on images and they, of course, don't move. I will look for the other information you have given me to read. It will keep me busy for a while. :))) I have seen some of Calder's tiny mobiles at the Menil in Houston. I had read Duchamp coined the term for him, somewhere in some of my reading.
by Marguerite on August 17th, 2009
P.S. Excellent answer, Nick! Thanks!++++
by Marguerite on August 17th, 2009