Calder's Mobiles and Kinetic Art
From mobiles that sway in the breeze to canvases that shimmer before your eyes, take a look
What this quiz asks
- 1Which American artist made « mobiles » famous — those hanging sculptures that move at the slightest breath of air?
- 2What sets a Calder mobile hanging from the ceiling in motion?
- 3What do we call Calder's fixed, floor-standing sculptures, as opposed to his mobiles?
- 4Art that creates an illusion of movement with geometric patterns, though nothing really moves, is called what?
- 5Who suggested the word « mobile », in 1931, for Calder's moving sculptures?
- 6Which country does Victor Vasarely, often called the father of Op art, come from?
- 7The Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto is famous for his « Penetrables ». What are they?
- 8In 1955, a show at the Denise René gallery in Paris established the idea of « kinetic art ». What was its title?
- 9Who coined the word « stabile » for Calder's motionless sculptures?
- 10In 1960, an artist presents at MoMA a machine designed to destroy itself, « Homage to New York ». Who?
