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Variation Number 7: Full Moon
Richard Lippold is a twentieth century American sculptor with a background in industrial design. Through his skills with geometry and engineering, he produced many sculptors out of wires that resemble a three-dimensional mechanical drawing. Hanging from the ceiling, this structure, Variation Number 7: Full Moon, caught my attention immediately. The blue light directed at the structure gave it a calm and nighttime feeling. Made out of brass rods, nickel-chromium and stainless steel wires, the complexity of this structure is immense. It comprises of cubes, ellipses, triangles, and pyramids. The different shapes and lighting symbolizes the radiations of moonlight. The structure also represents the tenseness of life. If one key wire snaps, the whole structure would collapse. This was my favorite piece at MoMA because it shows traits of both geometric and abstract art. Next to the picture of Full Moon is Lippold’s 2D drawing of it.