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| "Emma": collage, gesso, acrylic, ink on banana skin paper. |
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Alexander Calder
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| 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.
Just because ...
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Saturday's Smiles ...
Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.
4 comments:
Love the quote re laundry and I grew up with ! Had a good chuckle
It came up as anonymous.. it’s me Lorraine 😜
Thanks Lorraine, I love hearing from you! google makes leaving a comment a real chore, thanks for your patience. Yes, both of those hit home for me too. Have a great weekend!
Jacki, again I really loved every line (do you also say so in English?) of today's blog.
I'm always surprised what great smiles you find. I especially loved the quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I had a book with her diaries which i really loved. I think the older we get the more courage and strenght we need. But most of all we need a really good sense of humor. I'm still working on it ...
Happy Sunday!
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