Bicycle Wheel Kinetic Art
In 1913 recalled marcel duchamp i had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn 1 the result bicycle wheel is the first of duchamp s readymades objects sometimes manufactured or mass produced selected by the artist and designated as art.
Bicycle wheel kinetic art. The importance subsequently assigned to duchamp s piece also reveals the significance of dada as a sometimes hidden. The museum of modern art new york. See more ideas about wheel art bicycle wheel sculpture. For other examples of my kinetic bicycle inspired artwork check this out.
Kinetic art also drew heavily on the dada movement which had inspired some of the earliest works of modern art employing motion such as marcel duchamp s bicycle wheel 1913 and roto reliefs 1935 65. Dec 13 2016 art and sculpture made from or inspired by bicycles. Close up of the wheel in marcel duchamp s bicycle wheel 1951 third version after lost original of 1913 metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool. In 1913 duchamp created bicycle wheel which is considered the first of his famous readymades minimally altered objects that are elevated to the status of art simply through the designation of the artist.
Due to the fact that duchamp s readymades were comprised of mass produced objects he consequently rejected the idea of an original readymade. Bicycle wheel weathervane windmill kinetic art sculptures youtube. Particularly in his readymades duchamp placed unprecedented emphasis on the artistic concept as paramount over craftsmanship or aesthetics. Most of duchamp s readymades were individual objects that he repositioned or signed and called.
The bicycle wheel that is today exhibited in new york s museum of modern art is the third version of the work the first having been made in 1913 and since lost. The motivation for such works and for the kinetic artworks inspired by them was not so much an interest in uniting art and technology as a. Although bicycle wheel was made outside the context of the kinetic art movement artists of the 1950s 60s looked back on it as a precursor evidence of a tradition of kinetic art extending across the twentieth century.