kineticism
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Driven by a dark kineticism, it vacillates between contempt and gratitude at a velocity that catches my husband, my therapist, even me off-guard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
The flowing water led Mr. Rhoads to explore the idea of movement, or kineticism, in art.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2021
Coupled with Theon Cross’s susurrating tuba and dual drummers Tom Skinner and Eddie Hick, Hutchings’ honking sax fuses the kineticism of Afrobeat with the gasping urgency of free jazz.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019
In videos of the first event, kineticism radiates through the screen.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 24, 2019
Visual artists are especially good subjects for this kind of documentary, and still images like Winogrand’s — mostly black-and-white, full of latent drama and arrested kineticism — lend themselves to cinematic contemplation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
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