Monday 12 October 2015

More artist research

Alexander Calder was interested in movement, from early kinetic sculpture made for his father. December (1909): For Christmas, Calder presents his parents with a dog and a duck that he trimmed from a brass sheet and bent into formation. The duck is kinetic, rocking back and forth when tapped. (Sweeney 1943, 57; Hayes 1977, 41) through to his trademark mobiles. http://www.calder.org/life/chronology
This is abstract real movement rather than representational drawing but it is a different way of solving  the challenge of celebrating movement. Although he is most famous for his mobiles and sculptures he   did paintings and prints of which I really like Black sun There is movement in this painting encouraged by the way the wobbly lines draw your eye away from the black dot.

I was also directed to Samuel Becket’s ‘Quad’ which is very simple but strangely addictive and provided a repetitive series of movements to draw from.


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