His suspended abstract sculptures were given the name "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp
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Kinetic art - Wikipedia  Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or ... He felt that his moving sculpture Kinetic Construction (also dubbed Standing Wave, 191920) was the first of its kind in the ..... Suspended mobiles were first made with colored glass and small wooden objects that hung on long threads.
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Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia  Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess ... At 14, his first serious art attempts were drawings and watercolors depicting his ..... To this day, sculptures of this type are called "mobiles". :294 ..... (Marcel Duchamp Prize), established in 2000, is an annual award given to a young...
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J! Archive - Show #4179, aired 2002-10-31  Oct 31, 2002 ... (Alex: We'll give you the Beatles lyrics, you name the song for us.) ... His suspended abstract sculptures were given the name "mobiles" by...
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Alexander Calder - Wikipedia  Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended ... His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was a well-known sculptor who created .... powered by motors were christened mobiles by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun...
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Marcel Duchamp - Sukanya Rahman  His fellow artist Marcel Duchamp coined the term 'Mobile' for Calder's ... Another fellow artist, surrealist Jean Arp, dubbed his static sculptures, ... we hear the name Alexander Calder is of course his spectacular mobiles. The innovative artist is most famous as the creator of three dimensional figures, suspended from ceilings,...
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15 Scandalous Facts About Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a ...  Sep 15, 2016 ... When Marcel Duchamp's 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. ... that Cubists claimed made this piece more Futurist than a true example of their avant-garde art movement. .... 2 didn't make Duchamp famous.
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Alexander Calder - Wikipedia  Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of .... Throughout his artistic career, Calder named many of his works in French, ... dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. ... Calder would describe some of his stage sets as dancers performing a...
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Marcel Duchamp - Warholstars.org  Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887 at 2:00 p.m. in Blainville-Crevon, about ... (MB15) Lucille's father (Duchamp's grandfather) was a shipping agent turned artist who ... He had two older brothers, Gaston and Raymond. ... as Jacques Villon and Raymond doing sculpture under the name Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
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Mobile (sculpture) - Wikipedia  A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of ... At this point, "mobile" was synonymous with the term "kinetic art", describing ... work of Piet Mondrian, Joan Mir and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Calder in many ... Calder's work is the only one defined by the term "mobile"; however, two other...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Nude Descending ...  Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase No. 1.
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Julian Wasser, 'Beatrice Wood and Marcel Duchamp at the Opening ...  See more about Marcel Duchamp, Marcel and Art Museum. ... Relationship between Duchamp, Roche and Wood is said to be the real life background ...... Often called "the Mama of Dada (ism)" this amazing artist had a very ...... Later to be thought by many that the story Jules et Jim written by Roch was inspired my their...
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Rodin Museum : The Collection  Auguste Rodin, c.1879 (Etienne Carjat & Co carte de visite, Philadelphia Museum of Art, curatorial files). ... But few who recognize Rodin's sculptures have failed to be moved by them. ... materials such as bronze, marble, plaster, and clay, illustrate his respect for sculptural tradition and his desire to .... The Burghers of Calais
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Marcel Duchamp "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 1" (1911 ...  Marcel Duchamp "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 1" (1911) | See more about Marcel Duchamp, Marcel and Staircases.
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Rodin Museum - TheInfoList.com  In 1926, Mastbaum commissioned French architects Paul Cret and Jacques Grber to design ... Eternal Springtime (1884), The Age of Bronze (187576), and The Burghers of Calais ... The Kiss * The Gates of Hell * Monument to Balzac ... Independence Seaport Museum * Insectarium * Institute of Contemporary Art * John...
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CALDER FOUNDATION | LIFE | PHOTOBIOGRAPHY  Ninth Annual Exhibition of The Society of Independent Artists. Exhibition catalogue. ..... "Stabiles and Mobiles by Alexander Calder. .... "A Water Ballet." Theatre...
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L.H.O.O.Q. - Tout-Fait  1919, Paris ... with added mustache, goatee, and title ... outside of academia, recognize this now infamous image as inextricably attached to Marcel Duchamp.
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Auguste Rodin - Wikipedia  Franois Auguste Ren Rodin (12 November 1840  17 November 1917), known as Auguste ... Many of his most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his .... In Brussels, Rodin created his first full-scale work, The Age of Bronze, having ... He first titled the work The Vanquished, in which form the left hand held a...
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Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia  Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess ... Duchamp's early art works align with Post-Impressionist styles. .... But I went immediately to the show and took my painting home in a taxi. .... or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century.
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op art-ziggurat Flashcards | Quizlet  pendentive. holds up a done; a curved support shaped like an inverted triangle ... facade, usually crowned by pedimented roof supported by classical columns ... a name given by Marcel Duchamp to a type of work he invented consisting of a...
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Mobile (sculpture) - Wikipedia  A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of ... Frank Zappa also claimed that his compositions were modelled on Calder ... since it was first suggested by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe the early, ... At this point, "mobile" was synonymous with the term "kinetic art", describing...
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Post Impressionism - The Roots of Modern Art  Post Impressionism was the name derived from exhibition 'Manet and the ... The result was seen as a symbol of the artist's thoughts and feelings and consequently ... Gauguin's work can be split into two phases: an early period spent painting ... Czanne wanted to make paintings whose compositions were more tightly...