spinner haiku
May 11, 2008 by QuoinMonkey
Spinner, 1966, sculpture by Alexander Calder, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden near the Walker Art Center, May 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
blue Midwestern spring
Calder’s spinner bobs and weaves
dancing with the wind
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, May 11th, 2008
-related to post, haiku (one-a-day)
captured this beautifully
Scot, thanks. Somehow I missed this comment this week. I appreciate it. It’s fun to look at this photo again. The sky was so blue that day. I like the graphic quality of Calder’s work. I saw his work hanging in a gallery window on a trip to LA in the late 70’s.
Robert Rauschenberg died this week on Monday, May 12th. I loved his work. It was an inspiration to me when I first started Visual Studies in art school. On the day I photographed this Calder in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, I had just come out of the Walker with Liz and Mike. We were studying a wall-sized Rauschenberg “Combine” and I was telling Liz what I liked about his work.
He once said, “The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.”