Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
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Q 01In which institution's sculpture garden did the 1960 self-destroying machine Homage to New York perform once?
The Museum of Modern Art
Curator Peter Selz commissioned the piece specifically to destroy itself; everything, including a bassinet and an American flag, was painted white.
Q 02Which American sculptor is widely recognized for pioneering the art form of the mobile, creating suspended works that move with air currents?
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder is famous for his innovative mobiles, which are kinetic sculptures that achieve movement and balance through delicately arranged parts that respond to air currents.
Q 03Which Dutch artist builds wind-powered walking 'Strandbeests' for beaches?
Theo Jansen
Jansen builds them from PVC pipe and zip ties, gives each 'evolutionary period' a Latin name, and voiced himself when The Simpsons featured the creatures in 2016.
Q 04Which American sculptor is known for stainless-steel geometric abstractions moved only by air currents?
George Rickey
Rickey's father was an engineer and his grandfather a clockmaker; his wind-driven pieces are engineered to survive 80 mph gusts.
Q 05Which Swiss artist made 'meta-mechanical' scrap-metal sculptures that sometimes self-destructed?
Jean Tinguely
His most famous machine, Homage to New York, only partly destroyed itself in 1960; a follow-up detonated successfully in the desert outside Las Vegas two years later.
Q 06Which artist's 'Bicycle Wheel', a fork and wheel mounted on a stool, is an early 'readymade'?
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp's 'Bicycle Wheel' (1913) is often cited as one of the first 'readymades' and an early, albeit proto-kinetic, artwork, as its wheel could be spun by hand.
Q 07Which artist, known for wind-driven kinetic metal sculptures, designed the 2016 Rio Olympic cauldron?
Anthony Howe
Anthony Howe is known for his large-scale, intricate kinetic wind sculptures, often made of stainless steel, that move fluidly and hypnotically. He notably designed the cauldron for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
Q 08In what year did the Paris exhibition 'Le Mouvement', credited with establishing kinetic art, take place?
1955
Gallerist Denise René staged the show; Victor Vasarely and Pontus Hultén used it to launch their 'Yellow Manifesto' on optical and luminous art.
Q 09Which German artist built The Peacock Machine and wore a unicorn-spike body-suit titled Einhorn?
Rebecca Horn
Horn was a virtual unknown of 28 when Harald Szeemann invited her to Documenta in 1972; her Feather Fingers piece attaches a feather to each fingertip to scramble the sense of touch.
Q 10Which Russian Constructivist co-wrote the 1920 'Realistic Manifesto' and coined 'kinetic rhythm'?
Naum Gabo
Gabo was born Naum Pevsner and changed his surname to avoid confusion with his brother Antoine, his co-author on the manifesto; his 1920 Standing Waves is often called the first kinetic artwork.