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Alexander Calder - Wikipedia Alexander " Sandy " Calder ( ˈkɔːldər ; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures [1]
Calder Foundation The Calder Foundation is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and interpreting the art and archives of Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder | Biography, Sculpture, Mobiles, Stabiles - Britannica Alexander Calder (born July 22 or August 22, 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania, U S —died November 11, 1976, New York, New York) was an American artist best known for his innovation of the mobile suspended sheet metal and wire assemblies that are activated in space by air currents
Alexander Calder Sculptures, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory Alexander Calder was born into a long line of sculptors, being part of the fourth generation to take up the art form Constructing objects from a very young age, his first known art tool was a pair of pliers At eight, Calder was creating jewelry for his sister's dolls from beads and copper wire
10 things to know about Alexander Calder - Christies Calder was from a proud lineage of painters and sculptors His grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, was a classical sculptor who was responsible for the famous William Penn statue atop Philadelphia City Hall
Alexander Calder - National Gallery of Art Alexander Calder is perhaps best known for his large, colorful sculpture, which incorporates elements of humor and chance into uniquely engineered structures Calder was born outside of Philadelphia to a successful, artistic family
About Calder Gardens | Mission, Values, and Inspiration Alexander Calder, whose career spanned much of the 20th century, is one of the most acclaimed and influential sculptors of our time Born into a family of artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art
Alexander Calder - Mobile - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Indeed, it was the French artist Marcel Duchamp who christened Calder's hanging sculptures "mobiles " For works such as this one, Calder cut sheet metal into various shapes and assembled these elements in a chain-linked system so that the flat metal pieces move in response to currents of air
Museum Collection - Getty Alexander Calder created two forms of sculpture that became synonymous with modern art—the mobile and the stabile Composed of disparate abstract shapes and often brightly colored, elements of the mobile move and rotate The stabile is its stationary counterpart