I've been thinking about mobiles recently. I'm not sure why, but I started to think about Calder's use of shapes, colors, and his skills at creating fragile forms from industrial materials. I did a quick google image search on mobiles....
Oh wait, just remembered why I started to think about them. My cousin is pregnant with twins, and I am thinking of crocheting a set of small turtle stuffed animals and making a mobile. I was looking at all the branded baby toys that are available, and thought it would be fun for my new relatives to start life without Dora the Explorer or Bob the Builder. I digress.
My internet search revealed that mobiles are alive and well, and enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the craft world. I found these:
Oh wait, just remembered why I started to think about them. My cousin is pregnant with twins, and I am thinking of crocheting a set of small turtle stuffed animals and making a mobile. I was looking at all the branded baby toys that are available, and thought it would be fun for my new relatives to start life without Dora the Explorer or Bob the Builder. I digress.
My internet search revealed that mobiles are alive and well, and enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the craft world. I found these:
Apartment therapy mobiles
(Make this.)
Mobiles for the nursery...
Book mobiles...
"Russian Constructivist Alexander Rodchenko appropriated the idea of the hanging mobile. From this idea, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was the first to develop the mobile as a three-dimensional kinetic art form. In 1932 Marcel Duchamp gave the name "mobiles" to Alexander Calder 's new art forms. Calder also made static, sculptural constructions called "stabiles", this term was titled by Jean Arp."
And it does make sense that the Russian Constructivists first thought of mobiles. If you think back to the architectural designs created soon after the Revolution, all represented a deviation from the classical past and the republican form of government. Tatlin's The Monument to the Third International is an especially relevant example, with three geometric shapes rotating inside an industrial yet fluid form.
My next question, of course, was: what about mobiles in fashion? And to be honest, I just haven't had time to develop the idea. I'll post again soon with some of the sketches I've made, but I'm still considering the different ways to marry fashion and the many aspects of mobiles.
What do you think? Because fashion is an art that relies on motion, I think it could be an interesting discussion.
And it does make sense that the Russian Constructivists first thought of mobiles. If you think back to the architectural designs created soon after the Revolution, all represented a deviation from the classical past and the republican form of government. Tatlin's The Monument to the Third International is an especially relevant example, with three geometric shapes rotating inside an industrial yet fluid form.
My next question, of course, was: what about mobiles in fashion? And to be honest, I just haven't had time to develop the idea. I'll post again soon with some of the sketches I've made, but I'm still considering the different ways to marry fashion and the many aspects of mobiles.
What do you think? Because fashion is an art that relies on motion, I think it could be an interesting discussion.
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