Exploring Modern and Contemporary Art
Workshop in Tate Liverpool - DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture
In this workshop somebody wrote four questions on a piece of art and gave them to me. I wasn’t aloud to see the artist, the name, when it was made or the blurb about the piece. I then had to answer the questions with what i thought or guessed about the work.
- What do you think the piece represents figuratively?
- When was it made/which period?
- Where was it made?
- Did the artist make the piece or just design it?
1.When i originally looked at this piece i automatically thought it was just an abstract piece. If i was going to say something figurative i would say it looks like a bending woman. I actually think it looks like a mobile. I find it frustrating to look at because everything about it says mobile yet if wind was added it couldn’t move around without hitting the frame.
(Mysterious harmony of nature)
2.At a guess mid 1900s, kinetic/moving art.
(1937)
3.Europe, with reference to artists such as Mondrian who painted grid like images with black lines and the ocassional blocked out colour, similar to this sculpture black metal frame with coloured areas like paddles on the ends.
(American artist living in Paris)
4.Don’t know, he could have designed and made the sculpture.
(Made in Piper’s Garden)
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=74193&roomid=5614
Alexander Calder 1898 - 1976 - Standing Mobile, 193
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