Yaacov Agam is an artist born in Mandate, Palestine in the year 1928. Agam is renown for his work that consists of a “rainbow palette” and the use of geometric shapes. For his artistic education Agam attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design located in Jerusalem. The movement most associated with Agam is kinetic art. Kinetic art involves a type of movement, sometimes machine driven, in the end result.
Agam’s favorite medium is sculpting.
The artist works in a very large scale with some public commissions larger than 30 feet.
Works are found in Israel, Los Angeles, and Paris.
Yaacov Agam is based out of Paris, France.
price range information; Works range from $1,000 for a screenprint to $250,000 for a large sized sculpture.
In this clip the artist shows a beating heart!
A short bio/ documentary about Yaacov Agam.
A quick trip to the Museum in Tel-Aviv to view works by Agam.
In this short clip this is a great example of kinetic art, as you move from right to left around the picture the image changes! One sculpture the artist made for children was meant to change for them as they grew taller.
Other kinetic arts profiled here include Jesus Rafael De Soto and Carlos Cruz Diez.
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