Metamechanics French m ta m canique has a specific meaning in relation to art history , as a description of the kinetic sculpture machine s of Jean Tinguely . ref http www.tate.org.uk servlet ViewWork?cgroupid 999999961&workid 14336&searchid 9966 ref ref http nga.gov.au International Catalogue Detail.cfm?IRN 60874 ref ref http www.coleccioncisneros.org aw rel.asp?CountOrder 4&ID Gallery 3 ref It is also applied to, and may have its origins in, earlier work of the Dada art movement. Metamechanics or meta mechanics is applied in other contexts as a descriptive term for a meta level or abstract discussion of the mechanics of some application or area. For example, in discussing game design , a given game has its level of mechanics of manipulation of pieces, dice, cards and so on subject to rules the meta mechanics might be discussion of types of pieces, or types of rules. Notes Reflist Category Modern art Category Abstraction art movement stub ... more details
Infobox artist bgcolour 6495ED name Jean Tinguely image Tinguely by Wolleh.jpg imagesize 250px caption Jean Tinguely portrait by Lothar Wolleh birth name birth date Birth date 1925 5 22 df y birth place Fribourg, Switzerland death date death date and age 1991 8 30 1925 5 22 df y death place nationality Switzerland Swiss field Painting , Sculpture training movement works patrons influenced by influenced awards File Basel Tinguely vor Museum.jpg 250px thumb The Tinguely Fountain in front of the Tinguely Museum in Basel File Z rich Seefeld Heureka IMG 1605.JPG 250px thumb Tinguely s Heureka in Z rich Seefeld Z rich Seefeld Z richhorn Jean Tinguely 22 May 1925 in Fribourg , Switzerland 30 August 1991 in Bern was a Swiss Painting painter and sculpture sculptor . He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art , in the Dada tradition known officially as metamechanics . Tinguely s art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. Tinguely grew up in Basel , but moved to France in 1952 with his first wife Swiss artist Eva Aeppli , to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realism New Realist s manifesto Nouveau r alisme in 1960. His best known work, a self destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York 1960 , only partially self destructed at the Museum of Modern Art , New York City, although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 1962 , detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas . In Arthur Penn s Mickey One 1965 the mime like Artist Kamatari Fujiwara with his self destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute. In 1971, Tinguely married Niki de Saint Phalle . Public works http www.art public.com cyclop Le Cyclop outside of Milly la For t . The Stravinsky Fountain fr La Fontaine Stravinsky near the Centre Pompidou , Paris 1983 , a collaboration ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
