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Essay / 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 related to it, but it wasn't until I took humanities classes that I began to appreciate films from different cultures, literatures and even arts and sculptures of different times 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 discovered the art 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 his Kinetic Structure of Geometric Elements from 1956. To my dismay, I was unable to understand the meaning of his creativity , but I found his arts very fascinating. I say fascinating because some of his art was suspended in space. A very obvious example of “suspended art” is Penetrables, immersive environments made of suspended strands of plastic. At first I was afraid to go between the Penetrables, because I thought that ...