Topic > Humanities Event: Kinetic Art Movement - 516

Never in my life have I been exposed to a vast knowledge of different art forms. I loved music and everything about it, but it wasn't until I took the Literature and Philosophy course that I started to appreciate films from different cultures, literatures and even arts and sculptures from different periods and eras. I decided to step out of my comfort zone and take a trip to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to explore and appreciate arts and sculptures from different parts of the world. After purchasing my ticket I encountered the arts of Jesus Rafael Soto for the first time. Best known figure of the Kinetic Art movement. I spent a minute or two trying to study his Barroco Negro (Baroque in Black) from 1961 and Kinetic Structure of Geometric Elements from 1956. To my dismay I couldn't understand the meaning of his creativity, but I found his art very fascinating. I say fascinating because part of his art was suspended in space. A very obvious example of "suspended art" was the Penetrables, immersive environments of suspended plastic threads. At first I was afraid to go among the Penetrables, because I was convinced of it ...