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How to make art?
How to make art? Masses, directions, delimited spaces within the larger space, the universe. Different masses, light, heavy, middling, indicated by variations of scale or colour - directions - vectors representing speeds, velocities, accelerations, forces, etc… - these directions forming between them significant angles, orientations, together defining one great resultant, or more.
Spaces, volumes, suggested by minimal means contrasting with their mass or even containing them, juxtaposed, pierced by vectors, traversed by velocities, none of it fixed. Every element capable of shifting, moving, oscillating, coming and going in its relations with the other elements of its universe. So that it represents not an instantaneous snapshot but a physical law of mutual variation connecting the elements of life, not extracts but abstractions, abstractions that resemble nothing in life, but in their manner of reacting.
Alexander Calder. Abstraction-Création: Art non figuratif, no. 1, Paris, 1932
