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Art 3/Artist Spotlights

You will be introduced to selected works of art and artists as they relate to the curriculum. In your sketchbook:
1. Complete a thumbnail sketch of the work 
2. Document the #, heading, and credit line 
3. Review all provided resources - take notes 
4. Answer the questions completely and with specificity; complete sentences should reveal the question (write legibly or type/print)

Entries started in class must be completed as homework by the same day/next week

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#13 - Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976)

3/18/2019

 
Picture
Tom's
1974
Painted sheet metal
National Gallery of Art East Building
FIRST - read about Calder's mobile, "Untitled" in the National Gallery's East Building: 
  • ​http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.56517.html

NEXT - watch this video and takes notes with particular focus on his:
  1. development and innovation as an artist
  2. use of line in his sculptures
  3. transition from narration to abstraction
  4. ability to engage the viewer
  5. mobiles v. stabiles v. wall-hangings v. wire sculptures
  6. use of space  & response to environment ("off the plinth")
THEN - answer the following questions: 
  1. There are reasons why an artist would title a work "Untitled".... what was Calder's reason for using this title for the mobile, which hangs in the East Building of The National Gallery, D.C.  
  2. Consider the points made in the video; how could one or more of them apply to YOUR sculpture?

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