動態雕塑Alexander Calder.(1898~1976)“He wanted a work of art to be an active event, an evolving circumstance.” 插畫 “佳美”(第5集)：女性裝飾品、首飾的設計兩家： 美國 Alexander Calder.(1898~1976)和 日本利用稻草設計品 an artisan weaves it into modern ornaments, redefining straw craftwork. Rice Straw: Beauty within the Prayers of Daily Life

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Alexander Calder ‘Untitled’ and Pablo Picasso ‘Bull’s Head’, both 1942

Alexander Calder.

 “佳美”(第5集)：女性裝飾品、首飾的設計兩家： 美國 Alexander (1898~1976)和 日本利用稻草設計品 an artisan weaves it into modern ornaments, redefining straw craftwork. Rice Straw: Beauty within the Prayers of Daily Life 

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Feb 16, 2023

昨天看過日本利用稻草設計裝飾品。可作“佳美第5集”直播題材。

Last month, New Yorkers had the rare opportunity to see aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, illuminate the sky. At Storm King Art Center, Calder’s monumental stabile The Arch was backlit by a swath of magenta. Further north, at the Empire State Plaza Events, the sky was ablaze with color around his Triangles and Arches. “My grandfather rejected the idea of a work of art as a completed story,” Alexander S. C. Rower writes of the monumental outdoor works. “He wanted a work of art to be an active event, an evolving circumstance.”

For more information: https://tinyurl.com/e6n3tueh

[Images: The Arch (1975), Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, 2024. Photograph by @tarajeannek; Triangles and Arches (1965), Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, New York, 2024. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

Rice Straw: Beauty within the Prayers of Daily Life

Core Kyoto

 

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Broadcast on February 16, 2023 Available until March 31, 2025

Fushimi Inari Taisha holds a festival in November, burning rice straw in gratitude of a plentiful harvest. The straw symbolizes a meaningful connection as the deity of rice is believed to dwell within rice grains, and it is used in prayers for offspring and in New Year's decorations. Rice straw is also used in everyday items, and an artisan weaves it into modern ornaments, redefining straw craftwork. Discover the multifaceted beauty of prayer infused into rice straw throughout the centuries.

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André Masson was born on this day in 1896. After fleeing Nazi-occupied France with his family in 1941, the French artist sheltered for a time in Calder’s Roxbury studio. He wrote a poem, embellished with drawings, which he gifted to the Calders. From then on Louisa displayed Masson’s ode to the studio along with Calder’s jewelry on her dressing bureau in Roxbury. An excerpt reads:

Hung from the studio’s rafters,

in the streaks of light a gong sensitive to the caprices of air

is struck only with the greatest caution

With the step of a dove it rings: what hour does it sound?

This is the hour of bustling centipedes

It is also the hour of the child with cherries.

Here the seconds lack the weight of the clock

they do not rest in the grass

they cannot conceive of immobility

they love the rustling of reeds

and the cry of the tree frog who breathes music

they play between your fingers, Calder, my friend.

The complete poem: http://tinyurl.com/yfdm7xn7

[Image: Louisa Calder’s dressing bureau with André Masson’s poem, The Studio of Alexander Calder, Roxbury, 1943. Photograph by Herbert Matter. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]