With an extensive look into the Len Lye Foundation collection and archives, this exhibition considers the breadth of Lye's activity in this important but often overlooked period, charting Lye's progress from experimental filmmaking to becoming a leading figure of
the 1960s Kinetic art movement.
A range of styles are on display, including modernist investigations of form (such as Torres - García's Construction in White and Black of 1938),
1960s kinetic art and other conceptual experiments.
Not exact matches
Kinetic art emerged throughout the twentieth century and had its major developments in the 1950s and
1960s.
Far Out:
Art from the 1960s explores art from a decade that introduced such movements as Pop, Op, Minimalism, Kinetic, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that ti
Art from the
1960s explores
art from a decade that introduced such movements as Pop, Op, Minimalism, Kinetic, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that ti
art from a decade that introduced such movements as Pop, Op, Minimalism,
Kinetic, Fluxus, and Conceptual
Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that ti
Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that time.
Yet that, too, was a movement, including Heinz Mack and in a valuable parallel to Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in Iran, with painting and
kinetic art that recall all too well the
1960s and 1970s.
Examining the connection between breakthroughs in photography and new techniques in painting, the exhibition will present rooms devoted to Op
Art and
Kinetic Art from
1960, with paintings by Bridget Riley and installations of key photographic works from the era by artists including Floris Neussis and Gottfried Jaeger.
Standing nearly five feet tall, this striking composition — which playfully evokes the swirling sky in van Gogh's The Starry Night — is an amazingly well - priced piece by Julio Le Parc, a trailblazing pioneer of Op
Art and kinetic sculpture in Paris and Argentina's 1960s art scen
Art and
kinetic sculpture in Paris and Argentina's
1960s art scen
art scenes.
Selected references: Arnason, H.H., History of Modern
Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, 1968 Barr, Alfred, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern
Art, 1929 - 1967, 1977 Barrett, Cyril, Op
Art, 1970 Barrett, Cyril, An Introduction to Optical
Art, 1971 Houston, Joe, Optic Nerve, Perceptual
Art of the
1960s, 2007 Kulterman, Udo, The New Painting, 1969 Lampe, Angela, Robert Delaunay, Rythmes Sans Fin, Centre Pompidou exhibition catalog, 2014 Pellegrini, Aldo, New Tendencies in
Art, 1966 Popper, Frank, Origins and Development of
Kinetic Art, 1968 Rickey, George, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution, 1967/1995 Rosenthal, Erwin, Contemporary
Art in the Light of History, 1971/2013 Tiampo, Ming, Gutai: Decentering Modernism, 2011 Weller, Allen S., The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American
Art, 1968
Stein said the sale also saw a number of «exceptional prices for
Kinetic Art,» led by the early Jesús Rafael Soto «masterpiece» Sin Título (Vibración Amarilla y Blanca),
1960, that sold for $ 1 million (estimate: $ 400,000 / 600,000).
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ART - KINETIC ART (1950s, 1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of Op - Art, explored Kinetici
ART -
KINETIC ART (1950s, 1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of Op - Art, explored Kinetici
ART (1950s,
1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of Op -
Art, explored Kinetici
Art, explored Kineticism.
From the graceful silence sought after by the Zero artists to the visual effects attaching by the
Kinetic artists, and the innovative techniques of Pino Pinelli and Mimmo Rotella, Rethinking Space unites the various strands of Italian
art of the 1950s and
1960s and beyond to provide a complete overview of one of the most fruitful times in twentieth century
art history.
Nevertheless, the event has become nothing short of legendary in the realm of
kinetic art, creating a nice metaphor for the failures of mechanized Modernism that were, in the spring of
1960, just beginning to be reckoned with by a new generation of artists.
That specificity — indeed, many specificities — play out in the Blanton's first dedicated Latin American galleries, which feature focused presentations of Mexican modernism between the 1920s and 1940s, geometric abstraction and
kinetic art,
1960s «Other Figuration» in Argentina, conceptual practice, and politically engaged
art.
Brett contributed as a critic and as curator to the development of European and Latin - American
kinetic art during the
1960s.
The expression
kinetic art in this modern form first appeared at the Museum für Gestaltung of Zürich in
1960, and found its major developments in the
19601960s.
The expression «
Kinetic art» in this modern form first appeared at the Museum für Gestaltung of Zürich in
1960, and found its major developments in the
19601960s.
Archive material related to the shortlived but seminal Signals Gallery, London, has particular significance in any account of Optical,
Kinetic and Conceptual
Art developments of the
1960s.
As a Brooks International Fellow at Delfina Foundation and Tate Britain, Kenji will explore the international and intermedial history of
kinetic art in
1960s Britain, centering upon the works of David Medalla.
Venezuelan painter and
kinetic artist Carlos Cruz - Diez broke new ground in color - optics during the Kinetic art movement of the
kinetic artist Carlos Cruz - Diez broke new ground in color - optics during the
Kinetic art movement of the
Kinetic art movement of the
1960s.