Centre George Pompidou The temporary exhibit we saw today was Alexander Calder . We had never heard of him, (not surprising since we are not fully tapped into the art scene). So off we went to see what it was all about. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures inside the Calder exhibit, and maybe that was a good idea as I don't think that photos can to justice to some of his work. Calder basically pioneered the use of wire as a medium to make art in addition to many other abstract and experimental art. Seems trivial today, but I guess that is the point of being a famous artist. No one did it until you came along! He also used in engineering background in his moving art pieces.
Many of his pieces of work are found on the foundations web site www.calder.org/home and on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder
They were also setting up for the Kadansky exhibition starting on April 8, so we will have to return to see that.
The rest of the museum is the permanent collection or painting and art. A few selected pictures are here.
Glass blocks, circa 1920's!
Jean Prouve, bicycle frame, 1941More pictures on our photo page: picasaweb.google.com/dkspence76
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