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stabile
[ adjective stey-bil, -buhlor, especially British, -bahyl; noun stey-beelor, especially British, -bahyl ]
noun
- a piece of abstract sculpture having immobile units constructed of sheet metal, wire, or other material and attached to fixed supports. Compare mobile ( def 10 ).
stabile
/ ˈsteɪbaɪl /
adjective
- fixed; stable
- resistant to chemical change
Other Words From
- non·stabile adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of stabile1
Example Sentences
His brightly colored twisting mobiles and gracefully hulking stabiles made him a titan of 20th-century art, often imitated but never equaled.
His design included a stabile — a stationary work for the floor — and, suspended from the ceiling, one of his signature mobiles, its gentle rotation powered by a motor.
“Nonspace” includes both mobiles — the term coined in 1931 by Marcel Duchamp to describe Calder’s kinetic sculptures that move in response to air currents and gravity — as well as their static cousins, stabiles.
The award itself, the “Ellie,” is modeled on the “Elephant” stabile sculpture, designed by acclaimed American artist Alexander Calder.
Jon Kessler, usually Mr. Mechanical, has three new pieces that are essentially airy stabiles dangling sweet found objects, as if they were collaborations by Calder and Dalí.
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