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1. www.wikiart.org › en › alexander-calderAlexander Calder - 229 artworks - sculpture - WikiArt.org

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   Alexander Calder lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of American Kinetic art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

   • Arc of Petals, 1941

     From the 1930s on, Calder created non-mechanized hanging,...

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     Alexander Calder war Teilnehmer der documenta 1 (1955), der...

   • Calder's Circus

     Calder enrolled at the Art Students League in New York and...

   • A Universe, 1934

     In the early 1930s Calder's desire to create abstract...

   • Spring, 1928

     The allegorical Spring is monumental in subject and scale,...

   • The Man

     During his later years Calder produced many monumental...

2. www.nga.gov › collection › artist-infoAlexander Calder - National Gallery of Art

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   After 1950 Calder spent part of each year in France. In addition to the monumental sculptures that can be seen in the United States and Europe, Calder applied his whimsical and lyrical sense of design to media as diverse as metal jewelry and theater sets.

3. mymodernmet.com › free-guggenheim-collection-onlineFree Art Images from the Guggenheim Collection Online

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   Jul 13, 2017 · The Guggenheim Collection in New York, Venice, and Bilbao has more than 1,700 free art images online from its permanent collection from Monet to Pollock.

4. www.openculture.com › 2021 › 03Alexander Calder's Archive Goes Online: Explore 1400 Works of ...

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   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.

5. www.nga.gov › open-access-imagesFree Images and Open Access - National Gallery of Art

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   Browse over 50,000 works of art with free images available for download. Look for the download icon when browsing the collection, or use the search tools to locate Open Access images.

6. mymodernmet.com › free-images-national-gallery-of-artThe National Gallery of Art Releases Over 45,000 Digitized ...

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   Dec 24, 2017 · Titled according to theme—such as Self Portraits, Mythology, and Nature and Ecology—the collections are packed full of free images for art lovers to search, browse, share, and download via NGA Images.

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   Who were Calder's sculptors?

   • Art enthusiasts can compare Calder’s wire sculptures of contemporaries, including famed dancer, activist and spy Josephine Baker and tennis player Helen Wills, with later signature mobiles such as Snow Flurry (1950). Visitors can also dive into a short 1963 film from avant-garde German director Hans Richter on the sculptor’s artistic process.

   Explore the Newly Digitized Archive of Alexander Calder, Famed

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   Who was Alexander Calder?

   • Photo by Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images During his lifetime, Alexander Calder ’s whimsical “mobiles,” or moving abstract sculptures that balance on thin wires and appear to float in the air, ensured his status as one of America’s most beloved sculptors.

   Explore the Newly Digitized Archive of Alexander Calder, Famed

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   What is Calder's new exhibition platform?

   • The new platform features 43 hubs dedicated to historic exhibitions of Calder’s work, 7 image-rich timelines that examine different periods in the artist’s life, and an interactive map that displays where his works are held in collections or displayed throughout the world.

   Explore the Newly Digitized Archive of Alexander Calder, Famed

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   How did Alexander Calder redefine sculpture?

   • Alexander Calder redefined sculpture by introducing into it the element of movement. He created sculptures and design objects that participated in the larger tendencies of European and American avant-garde, uniquely combining abstract art, modernist principles, machine and cosmic imagery in his works.

   Alexander Calder - 229 artworks - sculpture - WikiArt.org

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   What influenced Calder's Sculptures?

   • Many of his delicate early sculptures were made out of wire and drew direct inspiration from the trapeze artists and other spectacles of the circus, as biographer Jed Perl wrote in his 2017 book, Calder: The Conquest of Time.

   Explore the Newly Digitized Archive of Alexander Calder, Famed

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   What were Calder's Sculptures made of?

   • Made of wire, wood, metal, cloth, leather, these sculptures were specifically designed to be manipulated by Calder. The artist gave performances of his kinetic circus in New York and Paris throughout the 1930s, receiving critical acclaim for his elaborate creation of a moving sculptural ensemble.

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8. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › exploreExplore the Newly Digitized Archive of Alexander Calder ...

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   Mar 9, 2021 · Forty-five years after the artist’s death in 1976 at age 78, admirers can explore materials linked to his life and work through a newly debuted digital archive from the Calder Foundation.