Google makes the best unobtrusive flash banners. Check out today's banner, created in commemoration of Alexander Calder, inventor of the Calder mobile.
The Calder mobile could very well be used to epitomize art; a large part of the idea revolves around balance, fluidity and motion. While it'll be impossible for a layman like me to appreciate this artistic concept of kinetic art wholly, it's comforting to know that it hasn't been cast away as part of history and forgotten. In fact, I'll love to have one of these in my home some time in the near future to remind me of the importance of fluidity, and not stability, of life.
How can art be realized?
Out of volumes, motion, spaces bounded by the great space, the universe.
Out of different masses, tight, heavy, middling—indicated by variations of size or color—directional line—vectors which represent speeds, velocities, accelerations, forces, etc. . . .—these directions making between them meaningful angles, and senses, together defining one big conclusion or many.
Spaces, volumes, suggested by the smallest means in contrast to their mass, or even including them, juxtaposed, pierced by vectors, crossed by speeds.
Nothing at all of this is fixed.
Each element able to move, to stir, to oscillate, to come and go in its relationships with the other elements in its universe.
It must not be just a fleeting moment but a physical bond between the varying events in life.
Not extractions,
But abstractions
Abstractions that are like nothing in life except in their manner of reacting.
- Alexander Calder, "Comment réaliser l'art?" from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932
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