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Report | 04/17/2009 5:46 am

Buuburn

Gonna go find some stuff ta do! yeah!

Report | 04/16/2009 7:16 am

Buuburn

razz

Report | 04/16/2009 6:41 am

Buuburn

^^

Report | 04/14/2009 6:30 pm

Buuburn

V
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Report | 04/14/2009 10:26 am

Buuburn

Oh no!@! THe Mooninites!!

Report | 04/11/2009 10:56 pm

Buuburn

And the moon wanes into a gibbous. I wonder if there's new mail?

Report | 04/09/2009 10:27 pm

Buuburn

^_^

Spooky huh?

Report | 04/09/2009 8:59 am

Buuburn

Didn't see that one comin.

Report | 04/08/2009 10:17 am

Buuburn

LAWLS @ aRT hIST PAPER.

sOMEWHERE Warmer, I'm bored with snow.

At first it remains stationary like an abstract rendition on paper, but then it twists and moves out towards whomever. Coiling like some sort of organic life form, Alexander Calder’s Blue Among Yellow and Red is not only visually appealing, but its structure flows gracefully; a metallic mobile as light and agile as a feather. Made in 1963 and currently displayed in the Museum of Contemporary Art, the work depicts colorful, triangular shapes and slender pieces of metal, either curved or straightened. Rings bent within metal rods or simply welded on provide the potential to move, the unwillingness to twist and turn at a merciless current. The wire supporting the Blue Among Yellow and Red is thin and unnoticeable providing the mobile with the illusion of flight and weightlessness. Geometric shapes on each end of all fifteen rods become the sails that capture the passing air and thus begin to move. Differently sized rods provide the skeleton. Rods carrying heavier shapes are longer and become curved, a burden of carrying the heaviest of shapes. Other rods protrude almost vertically and almost vibrantly as opposed to its heaver counterparts. Perhaps the size distribution presents the light heartedness and joyful disposition; the acme of youth coupled with a lingering reminder of the weight of the world and the eventual aging process. Color plays an important role as it’s distributed through the piece. Predominantly red and yellow soft organic shapes occupy the mobile. A single blue shape floats alone alongside its fellow shapes. It is single sulking color that weighs down its means of support in the upper left portion of the mobile. According to the MCA website,
“Calder combined colorful shapes abstracted from nature -- snowflakes, birds, and animals -- with an interest in mechanics to create whimsical, hanging mobiles that move with air currents. His explorations of both geometric and organic shapes have distinguished him as an innovator of art that responds to its physical environment.”
The implied upper portion of the piece has more red than the lower, yellow dominated portion. Perhaps the use of all three primary colors, the rawest colors in this simple composition of lines and shapes remind the viewer of the basics, a foundation of artistic medium. Balance is introduced through this use of color. The eye is drawn to the lower blue then begins its journey to the lower right, up towards the upper left then back around to the beginning. The steel rods provide a separate sense of balance as it dashes and zigzags down the piece. Rods and shapes differ in length and width to create a truer physical balance that keeps the composition in check. Even when the structure moves from a two dimensional point three dimensional, the same amount of weight is put out evenly on all sides. The distribution of size and weight, where larger heavier shapes residing on the upper left side pull down leftwards, prevents collapse because of the upper right side pulling in the other direction, a different down. The placement of the wire holding the mobile up is set up so that if one were to draw a vertical line through the wire and in essence cut the mobile in half, all the larger shapes would remain on one side and the smaller shapes would remain on the other. Presented against a white walled space and illuminated with harsh light, Blue among Yellow and Red casts a shadow that becomes several compositions at each passing breeze. Lines and shapes begin to fuse and twist. Pseudo shadows, fainter shadows are contrasted against one another and never stay together in one place and time. This ever present concept of time and space, a force beyond our control that constantly shifts regardless of another’s will power, youth and age, joy and sorrow, the beginning and end all are represented in Calder’s, Blue Among Yellow and Red.

Report | 04/08/2009 7:35 am

Buuburn

I wonder where this is going. .

Report | 04/07/2009 9:14 pm

Buuburn

Tyger Tyger burning bright

Report | 04/07/2009 10:15 am

Buuburn

^^

Report | 04/06/2009 7:30 am

Buuburn

BWAHAHAHAAA

Report | 04/05/2009 9:31 am

Buuburn

Oggie Boogie

Report | 04/02/2009 8:43 pm

Buuburn

:"C

Report | 04/02/2009 10:29 am

Buuburn

Hope you like Polish food!

Report | 03/30/2009 6:50 am

Buuburn

SPRING BREAK!!!! WHOOTS!!

Report | 03/29/2009 6:31 am

Buuburn

COokie monster . . . come back to me.. .

Report | 03/27/2009 6:30 am

Buuburn

Yeah that . . . that didn't rhyme too good did it.

Report | 03/26/2009 10:14 am

Buuburn

Time to get ele-phants!

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