45 KINETIC ART
MOVEMENT IN REAL TIME OFFERS NEW OPTIONS FOR EXPRESSION
Kinetic art is a term that describes artworks that actually move. Fine artists became interested in movement toward the end of the nineteenth century when photography began to reveal the secret appearance of objects in motion. It wasn’t until the twentieth century, however, that artists began to make works that incorporated real motion. The Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890–1977) is generally thought to have made the first kinetic sculpture, Standing Wave, in 1920. This consists of a single piece of metal placed vertically and made to oscillate by a mechanism in its base. The resulting waveform encloses a three-dimensional space.
Other artists soon took up the task, including ...
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