Kinetic art
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Kinetic art is art that incorporates real or apparent movement. The term has been used for motorized works, works moved or modified by natural forces such as wind or water, works altered through the i
Naum Gabo, Kinetic Construction, also titled Standing Wave (1919–20)
Jean Tinguely, Eos (1965)
Yaacov Agam, Fire and Water Fountain (1986), Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv. The work combines kinetic and optical effects.
Lyman Whitaker, The Twister Star Huge, a whirligig sculpture
Alexander Calder
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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred no
Kinetic art
…motor-driven Kinetic Construction (1920), and László Moholy-Nagy's Light Prop for an Electric Stage, also known as the Light-Space Modulator (1930). Alexander Calder initially used motors to move some of his abstract sculptures before turning to air currents and other changes in the surrounding environment to produce…
Alexander Calder, by Carl Van Vechten, 1947
Nanette and Alexander Calder, photographed in 1900
Red Mobile, 1956, Painted sheet metal and metal rods, a signature work by Calder – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Hi! (Two Acrobats) by Alexander Calder, c. 1928, brass wire and wood, Honolulu Museum of Art