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Does spin art take skill?
Did you know that spin art sharpens gross motor skills? Squeezing paint bottles while maneuvering them strengthens hand muscles and sharpens motor skills through eye-hand coordination. It also takes practice and focus to master spin techniques for pouring and applying paint. Did you know that spin art sharpens gross motor skills? Squeezing paint bottles while maneuvering them strengthens hand muscles and sharpens motor skills through eye-hand coordination. It also takes practice and focus to master spin techniques for pouring and applying paint. Spin art is an art form that uses paint, a canvas such as glossy cardboard and a spinning platform. It is primarily used to entertain and expose children to the process of art creation, although it can be enjoyed by people of all ages. If you want to place paint on a flat surface and press the spin button then sure, it’s very easy.
Who invented spin art?
An anonymous Wikipedia author attributes the invention of spin art to Eugene R. Pera, who made artworks by applying paint to a vertically mounted spinning canvas. He demonstrated this semi-automatic technique on the American tv shows What’s My Line and I’ve Got a Secret in 1958 and 1959. Around 1970, Annick Gendron (Paris) was the first to appropriate fairground-style spin painting as a technique to create postmodernist highbrow art. She was followed by Walter Robinson (New York) in the mid-eighties and Damien Hirst and Andy Shaw (London) in the early nineties.