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During the past 40 years he has primarily focused upon creating "wind sculptures" which are handmade kinetic art that responds to the changing currents of the wind. His compositions vary from single, 5 foot (1.5 m) tall pieces to "Wind Forests" consisting of groups of sculptures standing up to 35 foot (11 m) tall.
He felt that his moving sculpture Kinetic Construction (also dubbed Standing Wave, 1919–20) [6] was the first of its kind in the 20th century. From the 1920s until the 1960s, the style of kinetic art was reshaped by a number of other artists who experimented with mobiles and new forms of sculpture.
The meaning of the term "mobile" as applied to sculpture has evolved since it was first suggested by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe the early, mechanized creations of Alexander Calder. [5] At this point, "mobile" was synonymous with the term "kinetic art", describing sculptural works in which motion is a defining property.
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Strandbeest.com – web site with video and photographs of the sculptures; Strandbeestmovie.com – documentary film about Theo Jansen by Alexander Schlichter – the web site is a workbook with videos and pictures; Theo Jansen at TED "My creations, a new form of life" (TED2007) Jansen, Theo. "Man creates kinetic sculpture that moves and lives ...
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Lumino Kinetic art is a subset and an art historical term in the context of the more established kinetic art, which in turn is a subset of new media art. The historian of art Frank Popper views the evolution of this type of art as evidence of "aesthetic preoccupations linked with technological advancement" and a starting-point in the context of ...