20 Facts About Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effect.

Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.

The amount of overlap between kinetic and op art is not significant enough for artists and art historians to consider merging the two styles under one umbrella term, but there are distinctions that have yet to be made.

Kinetic art has its origins in the late 19th century impressionist artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Edouard Manet who originally experimented with accentuating the movement of human figures on canvas.

Kinetic art felt that his moving sculpture Kinetic Construction was the first of its kind in the 20th century.

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Kinetic art claimed that Monet and Degas' work created the illusion "that art captures life through good modeling and movement".

Kinetic art wanted paintings, sculptures, and even the flat works of mid-19th-century artists to show how figures could impart on the viewer that there was great movement contained in a certain space.

Kinetic art used tools that most painters would never use, such as sticks, trowels, and knives.

Kinetic art thought of the shapes he created as being "beautiful, erratic objects".

Kinetic art painted his first work with aluminum paint in 1947, titled Cathedral and from there he tried his first "splashes" to destroy the unity of the material itself.

Kinetic art believed wholeheartedly that he was liberating the materials and structure of art from their forced confinements, and that is how he arrived at the moving or kinetic art that always existed.

Kinetic art believed that kinetic art should be executed from a purely mathematical perspective.

Kinetic art enjoyed tricking the viewer's eye when he or she first approached one of his sculptures.

Kinetic art's mobile is a series of suspended reliefs that only need a wall or a pedestal, and it would forever stay suspended.

Tatlin never felt that his Kinetic art was an object or a product that needed a clear beginning or a clear end.

Kinetic art felt above anything that his work was an evolving process.

Kinetic art's 1920 piece Hanging Construction is a wood mobile that hangs from any ceiling by a string and rotates naturally.

Kinetic art only said that he created a balanced mobile by using direct variation proportions of weight and distance.

Art historians believed that any type of kinetic art that was mobile independent of the viewer has apparent movement.

Neo-kinetic art has been popular in China where you can find interactive kinetic sculptures in many public places, including Wuhu International Sculpture Park and in Beijing.