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What was Alexander Calder's technique?
Alexander Calder's hanging mobiles were mostly constructed of aluminum sheet metal, and steel wire. He used simple hand tools such as wire cutters, sheet metal snips, flat jawed pliers, files, and other metal working tools to make them. Sometimes he would join pieces together by using metal rivets. The mobiles were typically painted by hand using a brush and oil based paint. Calder constructed his mobiles by first cutting out random abstract shapes from the sheet metal, filing the edges to smooth them, and then laying out and arranging the pieces in different patterns until he found one that he liked. Then he would connect the pieces together with wire, starting with the bottom pieces first, and then moving upwards adding new "branches", carefully balancing each new piece as he went along. Calder also created huge monolithic sculptures that were known as "stabiles". For these, he would make a small scale model by hand, and then work with contractors experienced in welding and heavy metal forming to create the large sculpture. After the sculpture was completed, it would be disassembled and shipped to the installation site where it would be re-assembled under Calder's supervision.
How did Albrecht Durer use a grid format for creating his work?
He had a wire grid standing in front of him, and a similar grid drawn on a paper. Looking at the subject thruogh the grid, he saw one part of the subject through each square of the grid. He then drew in each square on the paper exactly what he saw through each square of the wire grid.
Where did puppetry start?
Puppetry is a very ancient art form, thought to have originated about 30,000 years ago. Puppets have been used since the earliest times to animate and communicate the ideas and needs of human societies. Some historians claim that they pre-date actors in theatre. There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000 BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to perform the action of kneading bread. Wire controlled, articulated puppets made of clay and ivory have also been found in Egyptian tombs. Hieroglyphs also describe "walking statues" being used in Ancient Egyptian religious dramas. The oldest written record of puppetry can be found in the written records of Xenophon dating from around 422 BC. So I think puppetry started in in Egypt.">">
How do I find out about the value of a porcelain lamp made by Artistic Lamp Mfg Co New York City in the late 1930's or early 1940's?
I have a lamp artistic lamp mfg ,nyc ,it is a beige color with 4 clusters of roses on it all around the lamp front ,back amn sides ,the cluster on the sides are smaller an not as big as the front an back ones roses are pink ,has a goldest base an the org. wire am plug an it works ,thank u
