Sculpture as a medium: carving, modeling, casting, and materials.
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Alexander Calder made a miniature version of which kind of show to perform for friends?
Calder packed the tiny performers into suitcases and operated their tricks by hand.
What name distinguishes Alexander Calder's stationary abstract sculptures from his mobiles?
Calder's red Flamingo in Chicago is a stabile whose high arch lets people walk beneath it.
Alexander Calder made sculpted portraits by bending which material into lines?
Calder's wire portraits let viewers see through a face and around it, turning a drawn outline into sculpture.
Which artist is best known for balanced hanging sculptures called mobiles?
Air currents can rearrange Calder's suspended shapes, so a mobile's composition keeps changing.
Barbara Hepworth's former studio and sculpture garden are a museum in which Cornish town?
Hepworth moved to St Ives with her family at the outbreak of World War II and lived there for the rest of her life.
Barbara Hepworth is best known for which art form?
Hepworth often carved wood and stone directly, letting the grain and character of the material guide the finished work.
Louise Bourgeois's spider sculptures honor which family member?
Bourgeois saw spiders as patient protectors, giving a creature many people fear a caring role in her art.
Which sculptor was Auguste Rodin's student, collaborator, and lover?
Claudel made her own sculpture The Waltz, which shows a couple dancing with their bodies tilted together.
Yayoi Kusama's large, spotted vegetable sculptures depict what?
Kusama drew pumpkins as a child while growing up on her family's seed farm.
What name did Louise Bourgeois give her enclosed installations filled with personal objects?
The name links the basic units of life with prison rooms, echoing the installations' themes of memory and confinement.