Saturday, January 17, 2026

Day 4894: Alexander Calder & Lombardy Hills Livestock.

"Emma": collage, gesso, acrylic, ink on banana skin paper.



                                                                       
  

Want music?



   ClickRoberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Back Together Again.


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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder. "Spider." 1939. Gift of the artist. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York, New York.

Alexander Calder conceived of sculpture as an experiment in space and motion.
After a 1930 visit to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian's Paris studio, Calder began to develop the kind of work for which he would become best known: the mobile—an abstract sculpture that moves—so named by Calder’s friend Marcel Duchamp.


With this new art form came a new set of possibilities for what a sculpture might be. Rejecting the traditional understanding of sculpture as grounded, static, and dense, Calder made way for a consideration of volume, motion, and space.



Ranging from delicate, intimate, figurative objects in wood and wire, to hanging sculptures that move, to monumentally scaled abstract works in steel and aluminum, Calder’s art suggests the elemental systems that animate life itself.





 



  
 
A 7 minute video, Bananas, here
 
 


 
Just because ...

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo


 

Saturday's Smiles ... 















   



      Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.


  


 


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