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Big
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Alexander
Calder, Big Bird, c. 1937. Sheet metal, bolts,
paint. 88" x 50" x 59". Private Collection.
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2002 Estate of Alexander Calder / Artists Rights Society
(ARS), New York. Reproduced with permission of the copyright
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| Big Bird is an example of a stabile
— a mobilelike form that stands on the ground
and does not move. This work is eight feet tall; it
towers over an ordinary person. Its body and wings
are made from two large flat pieces of sheet metal.
Each flat plane points in a different direction and
the planes intersect at several points.
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