By artist Anthony Howe. Towering kinetic sculptures that twist and turn with hypnotic motion.

What is Kinetic Art?

Regia Marinho
3 min readJul 25, 2021

It’s an art movement. It’s art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer.

Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect. Canvas paintings that extend the viewer’s perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art. Wikipedia.

Here is an undulating kinetic artwork by Scale Collective.

It blends organic movement and architectural forms in an amazing installation. Created for the Constellations Festival in Metz, France, “Flux”.

An undulating kinetic artwork by Scale Collective blends organic movement and architectural forms. It has 48 beams of light that stretch 1.5-meters-long and are spaced 40 centimeters apart.

In this video, Anthony Howe discusses creating the cauldron for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Howe is a kinetic wind sculptor from Orcas Island, Washington.

These optical illusions force the viewer to engage with the artwork in a different way and see various perspectives.

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Regia Marinho

I write about ideas, technology, the future and inspire the world through art. https://regiaart.com