Sherwood Works: June 2012

Western Building national Gallery of Art

The Western Wing

Huge Painting!

Giant- huge painting! Do you see the picnickers?

Also huge..

The story goes that Lucretia committed suicide after being raped by the king's son, which actions are said to have been the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.

Leaving the West Building

National Gallery Cascade Cafe

The Walkway to the Cafe

There is a moving tread sidewalk, like some airports have, and the lights move in crazy organic- beautiful patterns.

This is a video walking fast into the tunnel walkway back from the Cascade Cafe, there's a weird sound from me walking on the walkway, but check out the cool lights and patterns!

Here is the actual "Cascade Waterfall" of Cascade Cafe.

This was the $11.06 meal consisting of three chicken strips, some fries and a blood orange soda.

I know it's gross- i tried to make up for what I paid in condiments.

CALDER

ALEXANDER CALDER

HIS MOBILES

This one is the largest in the museum and spans 76 feet and it moves with the change of air flow in the museum, really amazing. It was Calder's last design before he died.

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing abstract sculptures he called "mobiles". A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from which weighted objects or further rods hang. The objects hanging from the rods balance each other, so that the rods remain more or less horizontal. Each rod hangs from only one string, which gives it freedom to rotate about the string. Mobiles are popular in the nursery, where they hang over cribs to give infants something to entertain them and give them external visual stimulation. Mobiles have inspired many composers, including Morton Feldman and Earle Brown who were inspired by Alexander Calder's mobiles to create mobile-like indeterminate pieces. Frank Zappa also claimed that his compositions were modelled on Calder mobiles.

Here are some more from the Colder gallery room, I was amazed by the awesome shadows they produced with multiple strategic lighting as they all moved around.