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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1960 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorCalder, Alexanderen_US
dc.date1960en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-31T15:39:28Z
dc.date.available2013-12-31T15:39:28Z
dc.date.issued1960en_US
dc.identifier245081en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2903en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/153519
dc.descriptionDetail, base of the red stabile part of the sculpture; decorative pavers in Beinecke Plaza; The moving parts of Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures decorate and energize public spaces across the world. As the painted steel plates of Gallows and Lollipops hover and seesaw around the tip of their red tripod base, they obey chance atmospheric stimuli to destabilize the grid of Beinecke Plaza. Developed in the 1930s, the mobile became Calder’s trademark. While his primary colors follow the purist palette of Piet Mondrian, the animated geometric shapes resemble the abstracted objects and animals in the surrealist paintings of Joan Miró and Paul Klee. Source: Yale University [website]; http://www.yale.edu/ (accessed 5/8/2013)en_US
dc.format.mediumpainted steelen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectabstractionen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectmobilesen_US
dc.subjectstabileen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleGallows and Lollipopsen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode6A1-MJ-GL-A07en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniquemetalworking, painting and painting techniquesen_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayAlexander Calder (American sculptor, 1898-1976)en_US


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