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The festival was renamed in 2016 to the North Carolina Whirligig Festival, [16] and is usually held the first full weekend of November. [17] The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park was created in Wilson to document, conserve, and display the large sculptures from Simpson's land in Lucama. [18] The park had its grand opening on November 2, 2017. [19]
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.
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.
U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea.. Integrating both mechanical and computerized movements within his sculptures ever since the late 1990s, Choe's works push the genre of moving kinetic art toward its newer-generation iterations, such as robotic art. [1]
Folded Square D, Offenbach/Germany, 1981. Born in the coal, nugget and iron-producing district of southern Ohio, Benton was a successful sign painter as a youth. After serving in the United States Navy, he graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1956. [2]
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Kinetic sculptures (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Kinetic art" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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.