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Art Activity Video: Alexander Calder
Create a fish mobile inspired by Alexander Calder!
Activity best for children age 3 and up
Alexander “Sandy” Calder grew up in a family of artists. His grandfather and father were sculptors and his mother was a painter. Sandy was interested in movement and how people jumped, flew, swam, trotted or crawled. For him, they were all artistic shapes that never stayed in the same place. He invented a whole new way of making sculpture called “Kinetic Art.” His friend, Marcel Duchamp called the sculptures that moved in the air above you “mobiles” and sculptures that appeared to be moving but were anchored to the ground, “stabiles.”
Today you will make a Calder inspired “Finny Fish” mobile. Think of the shapes of a fish and what they need to move, and you and your fish are well on your way!