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His legacy continues to influence contemporary artists and the broader field of kinetic art, promoting interdisciplinary creativity and innovation that transcends traditional boundaries between different art forms and disciplines.
Aug 8, 2024 · Contemporary reevaluation of his work highlights its crucial role in the development of kinetic art and the the influence he had on contemporary and later artists. Calder made significant contributions to sculpture and kinetic art.
Nov 27, 2017 · The greatest British sculptor of the period, Calder’s friend and exact contemporary, has, after all, kept his reputation afloat with only a single-volume biography—but this may be a situation...
Dec 8, 2021 · Calder’s work is extremely impressive in its own right, but what makes the Kunsthal exhibition so exciting is that they combine his work with the work of ten leading contemporary artists, all of whom are inspired in their own way by his oeuvre and innovations.
Alexander Calder is known for inventing wire sculptures and the mobile, a type of kinetic art which relied on careful weighting to achieve balance and suspension in the air. Initially Calder used motors to make his works move, but soon abandoned this method and began using air currents alone.
In 1974, Calder unveiled two sculptures, Flamingo at Federal Plaza and Universe at Sears Tower, [47] in Chicago, Illinois, accompanied by the exhibition Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago which opened simultaneously with the unveiling of the sculptures.
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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presented an exhibition that provided a fresh perspective on modern sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and his influence on a new generation of artists.
