Kinetic art
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Image:Whirligig.jpg Kinetic art is art that moves, or appears to move.
Kinetic energy, in scientific terms, is the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion, including the atomic level as in heat.
In kinetic art the motion may be physical, as in the kinetic sculpture of Naum Gabo and mobiles of Alexander Calder, or implied, as in the Op art paintings of Bridget Riley and others.
The kinetic art vogue peaked from the middle 1960s to the middle 1970s.
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Types of Kinetic Art
Image:Energizer Ball Machine.jpg Image:T-Rex gutted.jpg Image:Pyrotechnic art.jpg Although kinetic art encompasses a very wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles, there are a few noticeable genres:
Mobiles and Whirligigs
Sculptures designed to move under the influence of air currents. A popular creator of mobile sculptures was Alexander Calder. The category of 'whirligig' also includes a wide variety of simple non-wind-operated toys, usually made of wood. See Mobile (sculpture).
Rolling-Ball and Related Gadgets
A wide variety of kinetic sculptures use rolling balls on tracks or guideways to create movement. They usually have some sort of powered lift mechanism for raising the balls and are usually continuous in operation. Other related gadgets use wheeled objects, water, or sand operating under gravity to function.
One-Time Gadgets
There are a wide variety of kinetic-art assemblages designed to operate only once. The most familiar type are Rube Goldberg Gadgets, mechanisms using an assembly of complex elements to perform an absurdly simple task. Another type is domino tumbling which has been popular for several decades. A newer type, Fortean Gadgets, expand the idea of domino tumbling to wide variety of other chain-reaction techniques such as stick bombs, herringbones, and string-a-lings.
Optical Sculptures
Some kinetic sculptures use light to create the illusion of movement. They usually involve colored filters, mirrors, diffraction gratings, and other optical elements in motion.
Automata
Self-operating machines which can also include robotics. See automaton.
Other
The medium of kinetic art is broader than most other art media and is very hard to categorize. Other kinetic-art gadgets and sculptures may use exotic techniques such as pyrotechnics and are limited only by their creators' imaginations.
Selected kinetic artists
Reference
External links
- Bernward Frank Kinetic Artist and founder of Kineticus
- Tim Fort's Kinetic Art Creator of unique chain-reaction gadgets using techniques seen nowhere else
- Kineticus - biggest Database of kinetic artists
- The Art of Andrew Smith Videos and Photos of Andrew Smiths Kinetic, Rolling Ball, Water and Figurative Sculpture.
- Largest International Kinetic art organisation
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