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does not wish to be an historical reference but tries to profit from the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