Kinetic art

Kinetic art is a form of artistic expression, in which the movement attracts attention as an integral aesthetic part of the art object. Even if the object is changed apparently because the viewer moves ( Carlos Cruz -Diez ), or an illusion, a movement pretends ( Youri Messen - Yashin ). Therefore, the op art some observers regarded as kinetic art.

Kinetic art became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Your pre-modern origins lie in the mechanical arts and crafts equipment and aesthetic water features of the Baroque period. In modern times its beginnings in the kinetic light and motion objects of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray are also to be found as in the constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin machines, Naum Gabo, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy -Nagy.

A continuation of kinetic art is the cybernetic art in which the work of art to external influences, especially to manipulations of people responding ( eg Nicolas Schöffer Spatiodynamische towers).

The technical constructions are often driven by the natural forces of wind, water and gravity (see bullet trains). But engines, movements and manual drives are used. Today's artists kinetic art are often on the cutting edge of technology, computer-controlled objects are no longer a rarity.

Representatives of kinetic art (selection)

Main representative

For more representatives

  • The artist group Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel
  • The artist group ZERO with its founding members, Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Hans Salentin and Günther Uecker.

Collections

  • Kinetic department at the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen. The collection built up since the 1960s is one of the most extensive in Europe.
Carlos Cruz-Diez Op-Art Constructivism (art) Rolling ball sculpture Harry Kramer (artist) Zero (art)
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