Alexander Calder
Thomas Girst : Communicating BMW Art Cars (2009)
→ Professional DevelopmentR.J. Preece (ADP) - 10 Jun 09
...Alexander Calder (on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art through June 21). The collection now includes 16 works by renowned artists, including Stella, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and most recently, Olafur Eliasson. Created as “rolling sculptures,” the...
Alexander Calder’s Whirling ear vandalized in Brussels (2000)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Dec 00
Alexander Calder’s Whirling ear vandalized in Brussels (2000) Alexander Calder. Whirling ear, (1958). Originally commissioned for the Brussels 1958 World’s Fair, Alexander Calder’s Whirling ear (1958) had been locked in the basement of the city’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts for over 30 years....
Kinetic Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92
...Alexander Calder’s “mobiles” were perhaps the best-known and most popular form of Kinetic Art. According to Frank Popper, various kinds of movement can be identified within Kineticism: (1) actual movement— mobiles, moving lights, machines: (2) virtual movement— a response in the viewer’s eyes to...
Contemporary Style (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Alexander Calder and Barbara Hepworth. Wallpaper and textile design favoured geometric patterns: snow crystals, coffin shapes or elongated hexagons. Peter Cook said of the design of 1952 that it was "a mixture of post-war spin off (the technology of laminates, alloys and micro-mechanics) and...
Car culture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. The vehicles were displayed in an "Art Cars" exhibition to mark the opening of a BMW showroom, Park Avenue, New York, in 1986. From time to time a particular make of car becomes a cult object; a famous...
Alexander Calder. BMW Art Car, (1975)
→ café library - photoAlexander Calder. BMW Art Car, (1975) Alexander Calder. Art Car, (1975). Paint on BMW 3.0 CSL.
Alexander Calder. BMW Art Car (detail), (1975)
→ café library - photoAlexander Calder. BMW Art Car (detail), (1975) Alexander Calder. Art Car (detail) (1975). Paint on BMW 3.0 CSL.
