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Alexander
Calder, Flamingo, c. 1973.
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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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"Flamingo
is a 30-ton, six-story-high stabile, built
in the center of a busy plaza in Chicago. In spite
of its size, Flamingo has many of the same
qualities as other Calder sculptures. It is a
simple abstraction, based on the intersection
of flat, opposing planes. Flamingo
is made up almost entirely of angular shapes.
This work also captures the qualities of a creature
of the natural world, an awkward red flamingo,
its head buried in water."
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