Today my mom, my brother and I went to the MALBA, an art museum in Buenos Aires. Even the benches inside are art.
One of the exhibits we visited was titled "El Color en El Espacio y en El Tiempo which translates to "Color in Space and Time". The artist was Carlos Cruz-Diez. He does Kinetic Art which is a movement that occurred in Paris, France in the mid 1950's. He uses bright colors and parallel lines to create pieces that leave your head spinning.
Like many modern artists, he started with painting more typical, classic paintings such as bowls of fruit or other realistic scenes. His exhibit showed hi progression from classic paintings, to his kinetic art and finally to a w-shaped room with each division bathed in a different color: blue, pink and green. The colors were extremely vibrant and your eyes would hurt. In between each section there was a four foot tall rectangular pillar, one half bathed in one color and the other half bathed in the other adjacent color. As a whole, it was a brilliant, radiating neon gradient.
Kinetic means moving, and that is exactly what Carlos's pieces do. They are kind of like a hologram. If you start on one side of the work and move to the other side in a semi-circle it will completely change its appearance until you are back to the opposite side. It's colors as well as shapes will morph and change until it looks like it did at the beginning of your semi-circle. For these pieces, the materials he uses include a wood base, painted parallel vertical lines of bright colors and to top it off parallel strips of plexi glass on their thin edge. I only have examples of works that use light. We were not allowed to take photos of the wood pieces.
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