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Can you make a mobile that balances?
Balance can have different meanings. Usually we talk about balance as an actual thing - an equal distribution of weight. However, often in art, balance is implied; it is visual, when the artist combines the elements of art in a way that makes the total image appear to be a balanced composition.
For your project, you will make a real mobile that has actual balance. Your mobile also needs to have movement. Let's get ready. Complete your study sheet by using the following:
1. Go to each website to create a virtual, on-line mobile:
- National Gallery of Art Classroom: Mobile Maker
- The Art Zone's NGAkids Mobile at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2. Watch this video on The Alexander Calder Mobile - East Wing of the National Gallery.
3. Read about Calder’s Mobile Making method. (Scroll down to the middle of the page, to the light gray box in italics.)
4. Read instructions and look at the pictures on how to make a mobile on these two websites:
- Dinosaurs and Robots
- Google Books: Popular Science - How to Make a Christmas Mobile and How to Make an Abstract Mobile
5. Choose one of Calder’s mobiles to examine. Complete the response sheet.
6. Sketch a design for your mobile.
Are you ready??? After the class demo, we will begin!
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For your project, you will make a real mobile that has actual balance. Your mobile also needs to have movement. Let's get ready. Complete your study sheet by using the following:
1. Go to each website to create a virtual, on-line mobile:
- National Gallery of Art Classroom: Mobile Maker
- The Art Zone's NGAkids Mobile at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2. Watch this video on The Alexander Calder Mobile - East Wing of the National Gallery.
3. Read about Calder’s Mobile Making method. (Scroll down to the middle of the page, to the light gray box in italics.)
4. Read instructions and look at the pictures on how to make a mobile on these two websites:
- Dinosaurs and Robots
- Google Books: Popular Science - How to Make a Christmas Mobile and How to Make an Abstract Mobile
5. Choose one of Calder’s mobiles to examine. Complete the response sheet.
6. Sketch a design for your mobile.
Are you ready??? After the class demo, we will begin!
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