Not much for mobiles, actually
I tend not to be all that into hanging art. I'm more of a bowls, vases,teapots, etc. kind of gal. I like functional art, mostly. That said I have seen some cool mobiles from Flensted and from another place that I can't remembe rthe name of that almost made we want to buy them. My fav mobile ever, tho was made by my nephew when he was 4. Garish, hideous, poorly balanced and 100% perfect.
Mobile lovers
might remember that all mobiles descend from Alexander Calder's inventive and playful work. It pains me to see pale imitations of his forms and colors. Of the latter-day mobiles above I like the black one best, I think.
George Rickey worked seriously on kinetic sculpture, most of it supported from below, that owes nothing to Calder's shapes.
I encourage art lovers to try making mobiles for themselves. It's remarkably easy; the secret is to start at the bottom and move up (sort of a metaphor for life ?). I made many original mobiles in my early days; I'll never forget the feeling of an all-night session with copper wire and glass !
Here are three Rickey pieces.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7855731230387937416
I do too.
This is a rarity -- a wall-hung piece. Its photo was printed upside-down in the little MoMA hard-bound book I had as a kid; it took a while for me to notice that ! The photos were mostly by Ezra Stoller. He told me that he had to shoot the photo of a small exhibition of the work, somewhere, through the window of the gallery -- because the place was closed when he got there.
I love that Man Ray piece -- though it could be a little more restrained, don't you think ? It beats Calder to the mobile by ten or eleven years.
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