Alexander Calder, Frank Gehry, Georgia O'Keeffe
Shape/Form, Rhythm/Movement, and Emphasis
Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: 1966
Medium: Sculpture, Sculptures
Size: overall 235 x 351 x 351 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1971.16
Movement (Also Color, Line and Shape)
The piece uses literal, physical movement through space to create a perpetually changing sculpture; it is never in the exact same position twice.
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: circa 1948
Medium: Sculpture, Sculptures
Size: overall 17.5 x 25 x 10 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1955.11.1-.2
Balance, (also shape, line, emphasis, and movement)
The large shape is visually heavier than the several small pieces, but the movement and varried shapes of the smaller mobile parts equals the visual weight of the parger shape.
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: circa 1955
Medium: Sculpture, Sculptures
Size: overall 17.375 x 27.125 x 27.125 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1995.78.1-.2
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: 1964
Medium: Sculpture, Sculptures
Size: overall 116.5 x 111 x 67.25 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1968.1
Shape
This large "stabile" keeps the eye moving throughout the various shapes used, protruding from the center, but there is still a unified connection to the whole.
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects, Adornment
Size: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 76.45.1
Line
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: 1968
Medium: Drawings and Watercolors, Unique Works on Paper, Mixed media
Size: sheet 43 x 29.375 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1990.159
Emphasis (also color, shape, rhythm)
The large, yellow "planet" in the center draws the eye. Then, the rhythm of the repeating "saucers" from the visual foreground into the distance as the size of the saucers diminishes.
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: 1969
Medium: Prints, Print
Size: 25 1/2 x 19 7/8 in. (64.77 x 50.48 cm) (image)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: P.72.53
Line, shape, Color
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Artist: Alexander Calder
Date: 1976
Medium: Prints, Edition Prints/Proofs
Size: sheet 23 x 35.75 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1976.23
Shape, Line, Color, Rhythm, Movement
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Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Date: 1956
Medium: Paintings, Painting
Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) (canvas)30 1/8 x 40 1/8 x 1 3/16 in. (76.52 x 101.92 x 3.02 cm) (outer frame)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 64.43.2
Shape/Form (also color)
The eye is drawn to the thick, salmon peep hole through which we see a distant plateau. However the focus is not on the distant landscape, but the roundness of the window itself makes the viewer want to reach out and place a hand on the roundness of the opening.
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Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Date: 1926
Medium: Paintings, Painting
Size: 48 x 30 in. (121.92 x 76.2 cm) (canvas)47 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. (121.29 x 75.57 cm) (sight)53 x 35 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (134.62 x 90.17 x 9.21 cm) (outer frame)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 80.28
Balance
The large, dark buildings are placed so that each takes up equal space on the canvas, however the bright emphasised building and the illuminated streetlight between them serves as a beacon for the slightly off-center, creating subtle dramatic effects.
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Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Date: 1926
Medium: Paintings
Size: unframed 21.1875 x 32.0625 x 1.9375 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1954.9
Balance (Also shape, space, value, emphasis)
The largest shape in this painting is set off balance, shifting the visual weight to the right of the composition.
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Artist: Frank Gehry
Date: c. 1972
Medium: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects, Furniture
Size: 33 x 14 1/2 x 23 in. (83.82 x 36.83 x 58.42 cm)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 92.148
Shape, Line
The eye is first drawn along the serpentine line of the chair's profile, then to the three teardrop shapes between the line's curves.
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Artist: Frank Gehry
Date: 1986
Medium: Sculpture, Sculptures
Size: overall 264 x 168 x 102 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1986.68
Form
The body of the fish is bulbous and asymetrical, a form that the eye is drawn to and is able to trace and follow from head to tail.
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