Walk: Moscone Center (for last covid shot)
Distance: 2.5 miles
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| Three metal sculptures by Calder and Picasso |
So, back to Ciwt's quiz about the three metal sculptures above (Day 9/319). If you answered that the middle one was created by Picasso and the two on the ends by Calder, you are CORRECT🏆.
It is interesting to Ciwt that the two artists' very different temperments seem to influence the look and feel of their works. Alexander Calder (American 1898-1976) was by nature joyful, mirthful, playful, outer directed, a rare happy artist*. And these qualities suffuse all his art, including the two works below, both from 1927 when he was living in and enchanting Paris.
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| Alexander Calder,Ballplayer, 1927, wire ca 8" x 8" |
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) was complex: by turns genial, ego-centric, mercurial, playful, ferocious, cruel. Above all probably, intensely bound up in himself, much like the little work below.
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| Pablo Picasso, Figure, 1931, iron and wire, ca .5"x 3" |
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