Saturday 25 July 2015

Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth



Amazing new Len Lye Centre now open
Extraordinary art , extraordinary architecture

Have you ever wondered who made some of those amazing moving sculptures in Wellington?

Len Lye

(Born New Zealand 1901, died New York 1980)
 - film maker
 - kinetic artist
 - painter
 - writer and theorist
 - one of the first modernist artists in New Zealand and Australia
“All of a sudden it hit me-if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion.  After all, there are melodic figures, why can’t there be figures of motion?” – Len Lye
http://www.lenlyefoundation.com/page/len-lye-centre/5/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/70487443/live-len-lye-centre-opening-day

http://govettbrewster.com/Len-Lye/Centre


Friday 17 July 2015

Why we should draw more

Why we should draw more

click on image to find out about John Ruskin

see video below to see why we should draw more.