Kinetic Art Textures 1

ARKIVIA BOOK KINETIC ART TEXTURES 1

Beyond the IMAGE and the MEANING in every work, there are RHYTHM and STRUCTURE to understand the AESTHETICS abstracted from the MEANING.The geometries have their own aesthetic values apart from what they represent but when theydescribe Nature they do so in a continuous and rhythmic fashion.The evolutions of a butterfly design lines in space and create repetive structures which havetheir own decorative reason apart from being "butterfly".

The moviment of river water creates repetive designs as does the development of a city with its windows and parallelepipeds which spread in time.A tree which grows and extends its branches to the sky through the seasons adopts variations,

the description of which translate into living lines. The land which in many thousands of years sediments in layers that the earth moves in oscillating rhythms.The sea which sculpts the rocks and caresses the sand, tide after tide...

The contour lines of things, useful for defining them, intertwine and overlap in time and movement, creating a continuous repetetive flux of signs.They are expressions of life which create beauty independently and automatically.

The various "ARTISTIC FASHIONS" which followed IMPRESSIONISM" needed, among other thins, to free this sort of BEAUTY. Consider, for example SEURAT's research into the landscapes of VAN GOGH,or BOCCIONI's studies, the decomposing of the CUBISTS or the geometries of MONDRIAN.

These artists expressed the need to isolate the beauty of lines and forms from the meaning represented in time and movement.

All abstract illustration has investigated the beauty of line and form, of matter and particles, of movement in time and space.

During the Fifties the sculptures of CALDER were a development of this need for abstract portrayal through movement and have represented a fixed point in what from then on is known as "KINETIC ART".

The graphic styles that represent this art are various and were mainly able to express themselves in the Sixties. See OPTICAL ART and VASERELY's research or the works of MUNARI and ENZO MARI, or the"LUMINOUS WORKS" of SCHOFFER and PASQUER and the "MACHINES IN MOVEMENT" createdby many artists.

This book, however, does not wish to be an historical reference but tries to profit from the graphic style derived from these studies, proposing designs useful for clothing and furnishing. Designs in full creative freedom,without referencial restraints, transforming artistic ideas into repeating modules, ready to be developed oneveryday products.

ART TAKES FROM LIFE THEN RETURNS TO THINGS THEIR PRECIOUS BEAUTY.

Highlights:

- Designs for any product and surface

- 120 Modular Patterns

- All vector files saved in Illustrator CS4 in flat colors and CMYK

- Free to use in accordance with the copyright terms