Art Discovery: Alexander Calder - Museum Tour Jewelry Collection

Elizabeth Agro, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, takes us on a brief tour of the special exhibit of Alexander Calder's jewelry creations, on display at the museum in 2008.

Art Discovery: Alexander Calder - Advertising his Early Years Exhibition

This shows a few pictures of Alexander Calder as a young man.

Art Discovery: Alexander Calder - time lapse of final mobile

Alexander Calder's mobile was the artist's final major work of art. It is 76-feet long, weighs 920 pounds and hangs in the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art.

Art Discovery: Introducing Alexander Calder

Calder in his Paris studio, 14 Rue de la Colonie, fall 1931. Photograph by Marc Vaux

Nate Burgos writes in his piece Alexander Calder's High-Wire Act:

Sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was fond of metal wire. It was a boundless medium for him. He invented hanging moving sculptures called mobiles, in which objects, typically abstract shapes of colored sheet metal, are arranged by wire. He constructed figurines of varied materials, from cork to wood, mostly wire, that became the illustrious cast for an assembled performance piece of a circus, dubbed Cirque Calder (see the 1961 film by Carlos Vilardeba). He is widely known for his monumental works of metal in America and Europe, but he also made hundreds of pieces of jewelry, crafted of wire in the form of necklaces, bracelets, earrings and tiaras. In Calder’s hands, wire was a pliable extension of his imagination.

Glassblowing

Art Discovery for 5th Grade

Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa


Portrait of Lydia Delecktorskaya, the Artist's Secretary by Henri Matisse

This is a special post to help me with teaching my daughter's fifth grade class.

The subject is Women in Portraiture.

Here are the links I will show:

Women in art
A wonderful compilation of 90 portraits of women, displayed through a rapid morphing process. For a complete list of artists and paintings visit 500 Years of Women in Western Art.

Getting to Know Mary Cassatt
A brief look at American impressionist Mary Cassatt from a children's art awareness program.


Works of Mary Cassatt
A video of many works of Mary Cassatt

Women such as Amelia Earhart are featured in the online exhibition

Women of our Time
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is pleased to present "Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs." The exhibition is a selection of 90 images, drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery's collection, that celebrate women who have challenged and changed America over the past century.

Image in Advertising - Dove
I used this to start a discussion about how we view people and ourselves, and how advertising manipulates many portraits of women.

Links from our Speakers

As promised, here are the links to the materials and sites referenced in Tuesday's class.


The Kaiser Family Foundation website is an excellent resource.

Make sure to check out this section:

Health Reform Comparison Tools Now Include Senate Leadership Bill
The Foundation's interactive side-by-side health reform comparison tool now includes the Senate Leadership Bill as introduced on Nov. 18 as well as the House Leadership Bill approved on Nov. 7.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) site has many good online publications, analyses of budget and economic information. Here's a small sampling:

Promotional Spending for Prescription Drugs
December 2, 2009 pdf blog
Economic and Budget Issue Brief

An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
November 30, 2009 pdf blog
Letter to the Honorable Evan Bayh

H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act
November 20, 2009 pdf blog
Revised cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
November 18, 2009 pdf data blog
Cost estimate for the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3590, as proposed in the Senate on November 18, 2009