https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d en-us 2018-09-20 13:14:55 UTC 2024-10-15 02:48:03 UTC hello@padlet.com year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283902661 2018-09-20 13:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283902661 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283903298 Calder's mobiles would bob and sway around in the breeze.]]> 2018-09-20 13:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283903298 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283903654 Some people say that Calder's art work looks a bit like stars or planets.

Calder once said "The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system".]]> 2018-09-20 13:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283903654 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283904085 Calder made mobiles which were delicately balanced shapes which hung from the ceiling. His mobiles had lots of interesting colours and unusual shapes.]]> 2018-09-20 13:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283904085 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283904867 Calder was born in 1898 and he died in 1976. He lived to the age of 78.]]> 2018-09-20 13:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283904867 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283905582 Alexander Calder was born in Pennsylvania in the USA.]]> 2018-09-20 13:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283905582 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283906215 Calder's artwork is very famous. Some is displayed in Paris and some is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City!]]> 2018-09-20 13:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283906215 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283906575 What does this painting make you think of?]]> 2018-09-20 13:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283906575 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283907242 Many of Calder's paintings have strange and unusual shapes in them.

What do you think of when you see this painting?]]> 2018-09-20 13:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283907242 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283910271 Calder used the colours blue, red, yellow and black a lot in his artwork. 💙❤️💛🖤]]> 2018-09-20 13:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/283910271 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/284157461 When Alexander was a boy he used to collect scraps of metal to make jewellery for his sister's dolls.
He also made toys out of cloth, string and rubber.]]> 2018-09-20 21:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/284157461 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/284159162 Calder made this painting in 1969. It is called Sur les Pointes which is French for On the Tips. Why do you think it might be called On the Tips?]]> 2018-09-20 21:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/284159162 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/284159584 Once Calder designed the colours for an aeroplane. It looked like this!]]> 2018-09-20 21:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/284159584 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395490594 Lots of Calder's paintings feature interesting shapes and forms.

Calder once said "I paint with shapes".]]> 2019-10-09 10:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395490594 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395490709 2019-10-09 10:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395490709 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395492034 Calder made this painting in 1953. It is called Black Sun.

Why do you think it is called that?]]> 2019-10-09 10:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395492034 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395492388 Can you work out what year this painting was completed in?]]> 2019-10-09 10:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395492388 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395493752 Calder used a technique called drawing with wire. He would bend wire into shapes to create the outlines of people or animals.]]> 2019-10-09 10:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395493752 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395493877 2019-10-09 10:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395493877 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395496634 2019-10-09 10:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395496634 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395498199 Which animal do you think Calder is representing with this wire sculpture?]]> 2019-10-09 10:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395498199 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395504948 Many people consider Calder to be a genius, and one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.

But he wasn't a serious man. He once said "Above all, art should be fun!"]]> 2019-10-09 10:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395504948 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395508198 2019-10-09 11:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395508198 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395508262 2019-10-09 11:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395508262 year3_wh https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395508347 2019-10-09 11:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/year3_wh/riokymi1s07d/wish/395508347