Artist: Pol Bury (1922 - )
Nationality: Belgian
Movement: Kinetic Art
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Pol Bury began his artistic career as a painter, working in the Jeune Peintre Belge group and the Cobra group. In 1953, he took up sculpture and was one of the leading artists of the Kinetic sculpture movement. Four years later, Bury was incorporating electric motors into his sculptures. Later, he worked as a filmmaker and stage designer.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (10)
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Priscilla Susan Bury (Mrs. Edward Bury ) and Robert Havell Title: Spider Lily Date:
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Stuart D. McKee, Preparing to Bury a Memory, 1984
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Georg Pencz, To bury the dead, 16th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Enterrar y callar (Bury Them and Keep Quiet), pl. 18 from the series Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War) , circa 1810 - 1820
Museum of Fine Arts -
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 Enterrar y callar. (Bury them and keep quiet);
Museum of Fine Arts -
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 Enterrar y callar. (Bury them and keep quiet);
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Cloisters Cross, 12th century EnglishWalrus ivory; 22 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. (57.5 x
Museum of Fine Arts -
Mark of WC in a clipped rectangle, English Two-handled cup and cover drinking vessel England,
Museum of Fine Arts -
Architectural salt England, (London), about 1610 Silver H. 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.); W. 11.4
Museum of Fine Arts -
Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch, 1631-1708 View across the River Y toward Amsterdam Oil on canvas 42.2

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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Experimental Art Foundation: HETEROGENEOUS LOVES: Work by 8 artists from Canada, the UK and USA
Artists included in the exhibiton are:
Jose Alexander Hidalgo
Don Bury
Kevin Francis Gray
Karolyn Hatton
Robert Harper Jones
Eva Rothschild
Stewart R. Simons
Clare Woods...
Manchester Academy of Fine Art: Call for Submissions: 141st Annual Open Exhibition
Submissions are now being requested for the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts 141st Open Exhibition to be staged in Bury, Greater Manchester, U.K. 18 March – 6 May 2000. Entry forms available if applicants send a C5 stamped addressed envelope to...
Royal Academy of the Arts: 233rd SUMMER EXHIBITION 2001
As usual, there will also be a room displaying prints and drawings by both Academicians and other artists. Sculpture will also feature greatly in the exhibition, with works displayed amongst the paintings within each of the categories. In addit...
Colville Place Gallery: Marty St James: Betweeness
A number of my previous performance and video art works were to do with a sense of staticness and in contrast my static image print works are often to do with movement. This allows me an artistic freedom within the form and content. Marty St....
Inspire Fine Art: Taken by Storm: Art of Storm Thorgerson
Creating visually beautiful and thought-provoking art, Storm’s work has featured on a variety of single and album covers and collected in books including “Eye of the Storm”, “Mind over Matter” and “Walk Away Renee”. Storm’s distinctive style has ...
Studio Voltaire: JUNCTURE: Cape Town/London
JUNCTURE highlights the exhibition as a meeting place/crossroads of cultural expression at a particular point in time. In keeping with this theme the exhibition will span two continents, showing in both Cape Town (The Granary) and London (Studio V...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...

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