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MET to offer education programs in conjunction with Calder Jewelry
06 Oct '08
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The artist's personal collections, which included objects from African, Oceanic, and Precolumbian cultures, substantiate his eclectic taste.
Calder's exploration of jewelry in the 1930s also coincided with his burgeoning interest in Surrealism. As his largest and most dramatic pieces are unwieldy to wear, Calder's jewelry may be seen as a Surrealistic strategy to entrap the wearer into participating in an art performance or being metamorphosed by the object.
Among those who wore his jewelry were sophisticated art aficionados and artists, such as Peggy Guggenheim, Mary Rockefeller, French actress Jeanne Moreau, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
While Calder's more diminutive avant-garde creations converged closely with the aesthetics of the modern age, they always remained unmistakably Calder.
His sculptural art, regardless of category, has less to do with solidity than with lightness, air, motion, and graceful formal relationships.
The same sense of economy, balance, and adaptability so characteristic of the artist's much larger and more familiar mobiles and stabiles extends to his earrings, bracelets, belt buckles, and hair combs.
Calder Jewelry was organized by Alexander S. C. Rower, Chairman and Director of the Calder Foundation, and Mark Rosenthal, Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art.
The exhibition is organized at the Metropolitan Museum by Jane Adlin, Associate Curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is accompanied by a companion book published by the Calder Foundation and distributed by Yale University Press ($65 hardcover).
The book is edited by Alexander S. C. Rower and Holton Rower, and features essays by Jane Adlin and Mark Rosenthal on the relationship of Calder's jewelry creations to the history of jewelry and the artist's other endeavors as a sculptor.
The Metropolitan Museum will offer an array of education programs in conjunction with Calder Jewelry. Highlights include a Sunday at the Met program of lectures on January 11, 2009; a series of documentary films about the life of Alexander Calder; and programs for families and teachers.
Calder Jewelry is on view at the Norton Museum of Art through June 15, 2008. It will also travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (July 12 – October 19, 2008) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (March 31 – June 22, 2009).
Calder's exploration of jewelry in the 1930s also coincided with his burgeoning interest in Surrealism. As his largest and most dramatic pieces are unwieldy to wear, Calder's jewelry may be seen as a Surrealistic strategy to entrap the wearer into participating in an art performance or being metamorphosed by the object.
Among those who wore his jewelry were sophisticated art aficionados and artists, such as Peggy Guggenheim, Mary Rockefeller, French actress Jeanne Moreau, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
While Calder's more diminutive avant-garde creations converged closely with the aesthetics of the modern age, they always remained unmistakably Calder.
His sculptural art, regardless of category, has less to do with solidity than with lightness, air, motion, and graceful formal relationships.
The same sense of economy, balance, and adaptability so characteristic of the artist's much larger and more familiar mobiles and stabiles extends to his earrings, bracelets, belt buckles, and hair combs.
Calder Jewelry was organized by Alexander S. C. Rower, Chairman and Director of the Calder Foundation, and Mark Rosenthal, Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art.
The exhibition is organized at the Metropolitan Museum by Jane Adlin, Associate Curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is accompanied by a companion book published by the Calder Foundation and distributed by Yale University Press ($65 hardcover).
The book is edited by Alexander S. C. Rower and Holton Rower, and features essays by Jane Adlin and Mark Rosenthal on the relationship of Calder's jewelry creations to the history of jewelry and the artist's other endeavors as a sculptor.
The Metropolitan Museum will offer an array of education programs in conjunction with Calder Jewelry. Highlights include a Sunday at the Met program of lectures on January 11, 2009; a series of documentary films about the life of Alexander Calder; and programs for families and teachers.
Calder Jewelry is on view at the Norton Museum of Art through June 15, 2008. It will also travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (July 12 – October 19, 2008) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (March 31 – June 22, 2009).
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