Tuesday, June 5, 2007

len lye

Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye (5 July 1901, Christchurch, New Zealand - 15 May 1980, Warwick, Rhode Island), was a New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives such as the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. However, the bulk of his work returned to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
in wikipedia


1933 - The Peanut Vendor


1935 - A Colour Box + Free Radicals (1958)


1936 - rainbow dance


1938 - Colour Flight (Imperial Airways)


1940 - Swinging the Lambeth Walk


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http://www.govettbrewster.com/lenlye/default.htm

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