Not exact matches
The concept of energy - based aliens in Darkest Hour is intriguing enough, if only because of all the questions it raises about how these creatures» abilities
work (ex: Are there only certain
forms of
kinetic energy they can absorb?).
More deliberately evocative than his earlier
work, the
kinetic energy invoked by these vivid sequences is suggestive of the artist's passion for the structures of natural phenomena and the unpredictable free
forms of jazz and blues music.
Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of
work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and
kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid
form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.
Frank Stella is known for the large scale of his
work, and for the exuberant,
kinetic way he uses colors and
forms.
They have
formed the core of her
kinetic works, dissolving text into lines, light and colour.
These
works are described by Medalla as the first «auto - creative sculptures» —
works built with industrial materials to generate
kinetic, evolving
forms.
Works by Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani, Bridget Riley and Giovanni Korompay thus
formed the first nucleus of the GAM's holdings, revealing an interest in spatial and environmental research that would subsequently expand to include the
work of Grazia Varisco, Getulio Alviani, Dadamaino, Gruppo T and Gruppo N, together with various exponents of
Kinetic Art and Programmed Art.
Presented side - by - side their
works obliquely summon Calder's use of reductive
forms, his serious yet playful endeavors with materials as well as his development of
kinetic sculpture.
Right from his first solo show, Miriorama 4 (1960), where he displayed a series of
kinetic works that required activation on the part of the viewer, Colombo (1937 — 93) created
works in the
form of environments, situations, structures, itineraries and passages.
Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and featuring a number of recent acquisitions, The Kaleidoscopic Turn resonates with references to various artistic legacies of the 20th century from Op art to colourfield painting, offering a range of multi-sensory experiences including immersive installations,
kinetic sculptures, video art,
works on paper and painting in its diverse and expanded
forms.
By centring his architectural
forms around variable axis, he creates both vertical and horizontal
works that infer an animated, gyrating,
kinetic energy.
The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly essential properties of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new
forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the
work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of
kinetic art.
Often influenced by music, improvisational and spontaneous, Ellis is known for capturing visual rhythm through the use of
kinetic sculpture that produce analogue sequences, paintings that are often recorded in a
form of digital time - lapse animation, and collaborative public
works.
In plastic art, the avant - garde was ably represented by the modernist Constantin Brancusi, the Futurist Umberto Boccioni, the
Kinetic artist Alexander Calder, and Barbara Hepworth the Yorkshire sculptress who, in her celebrated 1931
work Pierced
Form, introduced the «hole» to the art of sculpture.
Carver's
work explores human relationships in the
form of conversations (recorded, mapped, or transcribed), sculpture and its environment (site - specific sculpture, sound installation, person - powered
kinetic elements), and performance (as part of longer dialogue of experience).
Fausto Melotti's «I lavandai (The Launderers)» (1969) has a lyrical quality and approach to sculpture, like a weightless aerial drawing, with a lightness of material and tactility, the
work articulates space in much the same way as Alexander Calder's floating
kinetic forms; space is the very essence of the
work with «Untitled» 1974, Juxtaposed with the weight of Genzken and the organic fragility of Hesse.