Sentences with phrase «kinetic art who»

Liliane Lijn is a leading pioneer and exponent of kinetic art who in her work has experimented with light, movement, words, film, liquids and industrial materials.

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Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

Illustrated with performance, private videos, and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed and innovative documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures, and scientific models.

Untitled (1956) is a seldom seen painting on glass by Palatnik, who is a pioneer of kinetic art best known for revolutionary investigations of light, mobility, and technology.

Brâncuși's impact, with his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and exemplified by artists such as Gaston Lachaise, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, Jacques Lipchitz [123] and by the 1940s abstract sculpture was impacted and expanded by Alexander Calder, Len Lye, Jean Tinguely, and Frederick Kiesler who were pioneers of Kinetic art.

This week, we'll hear a sample from Seattle - based sound artist Rob Kunz, who makes sound art from kinetic sculpture (here's an idea of what that'll look like).

To have Hepworth, who is so focused on the fixing of an image within the material, and to have Calder concerned with making sculpture mobile and giving it a kinetic shape, shows different ways in which art was being completely rethought in the middle of the 20th century.

The contemporary continuation of the movement also travels across the borders, with French artist Oliver Ratsi, Dutch Hans Kooi and Swiss artist Pe Lang, who employ innovative materials and technology as well as contemporary advancements in computer sciences respectively to create new works in the spirit of Op and Kinetic art.

February 26, 2016, San Francisco, CA — Heron Arts is pleased to present Perpetual Motion: Contemporary Interpretations of Fine Art Automata, a group show of eleven national and international contemporary artists who create figurative, kinetic sculptures in the pursuit of compelling narratives.

The Swiss sculptor and pioneer of Kinetic art Jean Tinguely was a highly ingenious individual who explored several avant - garde art movements of the 21st century, including Constructivism, as well as Neo-Dada and Surrealism.

The mood swing, however, could be attributed to a growing international interest in the elegant forms emerging in the new and popular kinetic art and the effect of technologies developed during World War II that had been taken up by designers such Charles and Ray Eames, who had experimented with fibreglass, plastic resin and wire, to produce new types of furniture and home accessories that were stronger, but lighter in feel than anything that had existed before.

A collection of some of the key works by Alexander Calder — who began making kinetic art in the 1930s — is activated regularly so visitors can see the art come to life.

It was helped along by certain key individuals like Peggy Guggenheim, who opened a new gallery - museum, called Art of This Century, that staged exhibitions highlighting abstract art movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Kinetic aArt of This Century, that staged exhibitions highlighting abstract art movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Kinetic aart movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Kinetic artart.

In the mid-sixties — Soto having initially been friendly with Victor Vasarely — disparaging of op art and keen to distance himself and those who were working in the area of kinetic art from it, Soto stated: «Vasarely is an optical painter, who worked in the spirit of the Bauhaus, but who remains a two - dimensional painter.

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.