Explaining the basics about balance when building an art mobile / hanging kinetic sculpture - With illustrations / images - Contact me if you need more help
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![Calder Foundation on Instagram: "Alexander Calder: Recent Works opened at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City on this day in 1941. “When agitated by the slightest breath of wind, [the mobiles] take on, in effect, the static rhythms of abstract design set in motion … the so-called leaves of the mobile are colored in various hues with due regard for possible contrasts and harmonies, the effect is fascinating,” Melville Upton wrote in a review of the exhibition published in the New York Sun. “The mere passing of a person through the room sets them in motion and weaves his slow or brusque movement into visible harmonies as haunting and suggestive as the strains of distant music.” The hanging mobile captured here was included in the 1941 exhibition and is currently on view in Enchanted Reve Alexander Calder Mobile, Calder Mobile, Alexander Calder, Hanging Mobile, The Exhibition, Color Shapes, Design Set, Abstract Design, York City](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F474x%2F7c%2Fb7%2F78%2F7cb778647e3b46beeee191e2fe6c49d4.jpg&q=12&output=webp&max-age=110)
