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Illustration from Making Things Book 2 by Ann Wiseman Making Mobiles, Mobiles Art Sculpture, Mobile Illustration, Mobiles Art, Calder Mobile, Mobiles For Kids, Make A Mobile, Mobile Project, Mobile Sculpture

I love Alexander Calder! I teach a Calder wire project each year, but I have never successfully made a Calder-inspired mobile. Until now! I recently received this 1975 edition of Making Things: Book 2. The Handbook of Creative Discovery by Ann Wiseman. Inside this gloriously illustrated book I found these instructions for making Calder mobiles: I decided to test it out with items I had on hand in the art room. Materials for first mobile: 18-inch pre-cut Stem Wire (AKA floral wire) 20 gauge…

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Hanging Spider, Calder Mobile, Mobile Sculpture, Foyer Modern, Decorate Entryway, Pallet Decorations, Apartments Decorating, Decorating Farmhouse, Valentines Decorations

Alexander Calder, Hanging Spider, c. 1940. Painted sheet metal and wire, overall: 49 1/2 × 35 1/2 in. (125.7 × 90.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Mrs. John B. Putnam Bequest 84.41. © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Calder Foundation on Instagram: "Alexander Calder: Recent Works opened at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City on this day in 1941. “When agitated by the slightest breath of wind, [the mobiles] take on, in effect, the static rhythms of abstract design set in motion … the so-called leaves of the mobile are colored in various hues with due regard for possible contrasts and harmonies, the effect is fascinating,” Melville Upton wrote in a review of the exhibition published in the New York Sun. “The mere passing of a person through the room sets them in motion and weaves his slow or brusque movement into visible harmonies as haunting and suggestive as the strains of distant music.” The hanging mobile captured here was included in the 1941 exhibition and is currently on view in Enchanted Reve Mobile Hanging Ideas, Alexander Calder Mobile, Calder Mobile, Alexander Calder, Hanging Mobile, The Exhibition, Color Shapes, Design Set, Room Set

Calder Foundation on Instagram: "Alexander Calder: Recent Works opened at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City on this day in 1941. “When agitated by the slightest breath of wind, [the mobiles] take on, in effect, the static rhythms of abstract design set in motion … the so-called leaves of the mobile are colored in various hues with due regard for possible contrasts and harmonies, the effect is fascinating,” Melville Upton wrote in a review of the exhibition published in the New York…

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