Word: calders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...staff, which had moved in by last week, found other works more successful. A favorite was the 33-ft.-tall mobile by U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder. Another was Joan Miró's free-standing ceramic walls (TIME color page, Nov. 3). Also widely admired was the almost-too-pretty 20th century Japanese garden, complete with arched bridge and 82 tons of imported Japanese stones, created by Japanese-American Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Mexico's Rufino Tamayo, with his mural of Prometheus, gave viewers one of the few art works with a recognizable theme. Unfortunately...
...worst problem will be the reactor itself. The core will have to be small, probably a cylinder a few feet in diameter, but it will have to generate something like 100 times the energy of the massive reactor of Britain's Calder Hall nuclear power station. This means that it will run very hot, and will be kept from flashing into vapor only by the stream of liquid hydrogen forced rapidly through it. On the other hand, the core need work for only a few minutes. By that time the propellant will have been exhausted, and the rocket will...
Large & Small. Today Calder mobiles grace living rooms from Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro, hang in museums from Massachusetts to Moscow, enliven public and business buildings from Beirut to New York's International Airport (see color page). A water-ballet fountain performs at Detroit's General Motors Technical Center; a 21-ft. motorized, mobile-topped stabile called The Whirling Ear guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation...
...Calder took a good look at the paintings of another friend, Piet Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...
...that he is doing huge pieces for important buildings, Sandy Calder suggests that he has changed direction. "After the Idlewild mobile," he said last week, "I couldn't conceive of small things." Then he reached for a strand of copper wire, quickly twisted it into a graceful, elegant ring for a pretty admirer standing near...