Representative work by Len Lye
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Len Lye

1901–1980 · New Zealand-born American

Len Lye was an extraordinary innovator in direct filmmaking and kinetic sculpture. He drew, painted and scratched directly onto film stock to create rhythmic moving images, then developed large motorized sculptures in steel that transform motion, vibration and sound into physical form.

Experimental film; kinetic sculpture; drawing

Major Works

  • 1935A Colour Box
  • 1936Rainbow Dance
  • 1958/1979Free Radicals
  • 1979Particles in Space
  • 1929Tusalava
  • 1937Trade Tattoo
  • 1977Swinging
  • 1960sBlade
  • 1963–76Universe
  • 1960s / realized laterWater Whirler

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