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A surprise 30th birthday present for Jessica Calder. Thank you Solly Smook artist for the commission. Solly is one of the participating artists in Solo Studios 2019
This month's Featured Illustrator is Jill Calder. One of Scotland's most prominent upcoming illustrators, Jill's interests range from classic linear illustrators to contemporary digital art. See more of her work in the Featured Illustrator Gallery.
Jan 8, 2018 · Calder was a pioneer of 20th-century sculpture, among the first to endow his works with a fourth dimension: movement. Duck (1909), which rocks back and forth on its curved underside, can be considered the artist’s first kinetic sculpture.
Jill Calder is an award winning illustrator and calligrapher who loves drawing, ideas, colour, ink, typography, stories, books, dogs and deadlines. Jill blends traditional and digital image-making methods as seamlessly as possible resulting in whimsical illustrations with broad appeal.
Nearly 45 years after his death, Calder's expansion of the realm of sculpture in new directions of form, color, and engineering remains a subject of voluminous discussion, including critic Jed Perl's Calder: Open Culture, openculture.com.
Apr 25, 2019 · By Art Critique Published on 25 April 2019 at 21 h 24 min. Kit Wise, RMIT University. “This is no ordinary painting – it is a living picture that moves!” So says one of the “For kids” labels in the National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive exhibition, Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor.
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The thing that makes Calder unique as a sculptor is his sense of a cosmic mathematic. He is willing to believe equally in a nonspace as well as in space. Because of this, his stabiles (and his mobiles as well) are able to fill a given space without occupying it. —James Jones, “Letter Home” (1964)
