kinetic art - Types of Kinetic Art, Selected kinetic artists

A term applied to certain types of modern art, especially sculptures, which move. For example, the hanging mobiles of the US sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976), all the parts of which revolve separately to create changing patterns in space, usually rely on air currents, but some kinetic works are connected to a motor.

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.

The kinetic art vogue peaked from the middle 1960s to the middle 1970s.

Types of Kinetic Art

Although kinetic art encompasses a very wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles, there are a few noticeable genres:

Mobiles and Whirligigs

Sculptures designed to move under the influence of air currents.

Rolling-Ball and Related Gadgets

A wide variety of kinetic sculptures use rolling balls on tracks or guideways to create movement.

Domino

From easy-to-build-yourself to extreme-domino-art domino toppling is becoming more and more a kinetic art world wide subject.

One-Time Gadgets

There are a wide variety of kinetic-art assemblages designed to operate only once.

Optical Sculptures

Some kinetic sculptures use light to create the illusion of movement.

Other

The medium of kinetic art is broader than most other art media and is very hard to categorize.

Selected kinetic artists

Yaacov Agam Daniel Buren Pol Bury Alexander Calder Carlos Cruz-Diez Marcel Duchamp Malachi Farrel Tim Fort Ralf Gschwend (Ralfonso) Youri Messen-Jaschin Gilles Larrain

Ronald Mallory Julio Le Parc Bridget Riley Nicolas Schöffer Jesús-Rafael Soto Takis John Tyler Jean Tinguely Victor Vasarely Andrew P.