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Yaacov Agam (born 1928 in Israel) is the founder of the kinetic movement in art and its most outstanding contemporary representative as well as the highest - selling Israeli artist. Agam plays with color, form, time and movement which makes his art four-dimensional. He fundamentally changed the accepted idea of art as a fixed image. One of the best examples for his four-dimensional kinetic art is the Polymorph where several different images are hidden in a single painting – they appear, fuse together and disappear, depending on the viewer’s eyes.
What's remarkable about the polymorphs is, that they are not static and therefore the invisible aspect of the polymorphic painting is constantly present, even more than the visible aspect. By introducing movement to his work, meaning constant creation and transformation, Agam has managed to create new visual structures that turn each work into a vessel for an infinity of images. Agam also correlated his artistic vision with Jewish values of progress and "coming into being", Judaism is very future focused, requiring a process of constant creation from its follower. Similarly, Agam’s works are always in motion. Yaacov Agam Museum opened in 2017 in his hometown Rishon LeZion, Israel.
