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Alexander Calder, Red Mobile, 1956, Painted sheet metal and metal rods, a signature work by Calder – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A mobile (UK: / ˈ m oʊ b aɪ l /, [1] US: / ˈ m oʊ b iː l /) [2] is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from which ...
Portable art (sometimes called mobiliary art) refers to the small examples of Prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place, which is especially characteristic of the Art of the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic eras. Often made of ivory, bone, antlers or stone, these pieces have been found in South Africa all the way up to Eurasia.
A CGI animation of the MoMA Snow Flurry. Year: 1948 Snow Flurry, I measures 238.7 cm × 208.8 cm and was gifted to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) by Calder in 1966. It was displayed at the Tate Modern in 2015, where curator Ann Coxon said that, based on the sculpture, "a sense of the natural world has also been important: [they were] looking at opening up some of the windows, getting a sense ...
The Art of Unix Programming: 2003: 2005 [5] book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) CC BY-ND 1.0 [6] A Briefer History of Time: 1999: 2004 [7] science humor book by Eric Schulman: CC BY-ND-NC 1.0: Archimedes Palimpsest: 3rd century BC: 2008: reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free ...
Apparent movement is a term ascribed to kinetic art that evolved only in the 1950s. Art historians believed that any type of kinetic art that was mobile independent of the viewer has apparent movement. This style includes works that range from Pollock's drip technique all the way to Tatlin's first mobile.
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So great was its scope and cultural impact that the term "WPA" is often mistakenly used to describe all New Deal art, including the U.S. post office murals. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] : 63–64 "New Deal artwork" is a more accurate term to describe the works of art created under the federal art programs of that period.
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