Not exact matches
Poulain convinced BMW to let him commission the late American pop artist Alexander Calder — best known for his
whimsical «
mobile» kinetic
sculptures — to paint a race - prepped BMW 3.0 CSL with 480 horsepower in the artist's signature palette of primary colors.
He is best known for his colorful,
whimsical abstract public
sculptures and his innovative
mobiles, kinetic
sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic.
They are the unseen forces that propel his
mobile sculptures,
whimsical feats of engineering in which abstract bodies of shape and line draw attention to their own balancing acts.