Calder

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918462-1,00.html

This is an article from Time magazine in the 70s about Alexander Calder, whose "Flamingo" sculpture we talked about in class yesterday. I find particularly interesting the author's assertion that Calder's greatest contribution to sculpture was being the first to make sculpture move, with his kinetic sculptures and mobiles. The author asserts that inserting motion into sculpture imbued it with "the purposed yet unpredictable grace of nature itself." Thus, one may assume that Calder's "Flamingo" clashes so much with the grey buildings of Chicago because the urban landscape is in fact unnatural.