In a 1937 essay titled Mobiles, Calder writes about the role of electric motors in his early moving sculptures. “With a mechanical drive, you can control the thing like the choreography in a ballet and superimpose various movements: a great number, even, by means of cams and other mechanical devices,” he writes. “To combine one or two simple movements with different periods, however, really gives the finest effect, because while simple, they are capable of infinite combinations.” While Calder la
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A panoply of mobiles intermingle in Calder’s studio, two-part bronzes twist on the beach, and a standing mobile flutters against the sky in Works of Calder, a twenty-minute film that debuted at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art on 24 January 1951. Initially proposed to the artist by actor Burgess Meredith, this remarkable film features music by ‪John Cage‬ and was directed by Herbert Matter. In addition to the mind-bending fusion of art and avant-garde music, it includes an interlude of a young boy—
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A short film about the mobiles of artist Alexander Calder
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Voir les mobiles d'Alexander Calder en mouvement c'est possible : 1. des mises en mouvement de mobiles vous sont offertes chaque jour de l’exposition à 14 h, jusqu’au 24 février! 2. les courants d'air ambiants peuvent parfois les faire bouger très subtilement, il suffit d'observer attentivement. Faites-vite l'exposition se termine dans deux semaines! http://bit.ly/CalderMBAM - See Alexander Calder’s mobiles in motion: 1. the works are set in motion every day of the exhibition at 2 p.m., until Fe
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