4th graders learned about the American
artist Alexander Calder. Calder was a sculptor who invented the mobile, a type of kinetic
sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended parts which
move in response to motor power or wind. Students learned that kinetic art is
art that moves. Calder also
produced numerous wire figures, notably for a miniature circus.
4th
graders made fish from wire, using their hands and various wire cutting tools
to help manipulate the wire to form the fish shape. Next they added beads, and
then designed a patterned background to attach their fish to.
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