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unusual facts about Kinetic art



Antje von Graevenitz

Antje von Graevenitz was married (1967-1983) to the late Gerhard von Graevenitz (with 2 children), who was an artist of kinetic objects.

Art Workers' Coalition

The AWC grew out of an incident at MoMA during the exhibition curated by Pontus Hulten, The Machine at the End of the Mechanical Age: on January 3, 1969, Greek kinetic sculptor Vassilakis Takis, with the support of friends, physically removed his work from the exhibition.

Gilles Larrain

Born in Da Lat, Vietnam in 1938, Gilles Larrain, the great great grand son of Paul Blanchy, first mayor of Saigon from 1895 to 1901, and the first producer of pepper in Viet Nam, started in education at the Lycée Français de New York from 1954 to 1957, before who went through the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (architecture), in Paris from 1960 to 1965, and one of the pioneers in kinetic art in the 1960s, using air, smoke, light, water and neon tubes.

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern op artist and kinetic artist born in 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina.

Systems art

John G. Harries considered a common ground in the ideas that underlie developments in 20th-century art such as Serial art, Systems Art, Constructivism and Kinetic art.

The Gardens at SIUE

The Hardy Family Wind Forest--- A set of kinetic sculptures by Lyman Whitaker are set in motion by the wind, creating ever-changing images.

Whirligig

In the movie Twister, Helen Hunt's aunt Meg (played by Lois Smith) has a large collection of metal kinetic art whirligigs in her front yard to warn her of approaching tornadoes.


see also

George Rickey

Popper, Frank, Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society, 1968.

MIT Museum

In November 2013, the Museum opened 5000 Moving Parts, a year-long exhibition of kinetic art, featuring the work of Ganson, Anne Lilly, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, John Douglas Powers, and Takis.