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Kinetic art


Kinetic art
Term applied to works of art concerned with real and apparent movement. It may encompass machines, mobiles and light objects in actual motion; more broadly, it also includes works in virtual or apparent movement, which could be placed under the denomination of OP ART. Kinetic art originated between 1913 and 1920, when a few isolated figures such as Marcel Duchamp, Vladimir Tatlin and NAUM GABO conceived their first works and statements to lay stress on ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Kinetic art — 13 artists:

Pol Bury
Alexander Calder
Naum Gabo
Gyorgy Kepes
Harry Kramer
Frank Joseph Malina
Kenneth Martin

Bruno Munari
George Warren Rickey
Nicolas Schoffer
Jesus-Raphael Soto
Jean Tinguely
Thomas Wilfred

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