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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.
- American
- July 22, 1898
- Lawnton, Pennsylvania
- November 11, 1976
Jan 8, 2018 · From wire portraits to hanging mobiles, the six works below represent significant shifts in Calder’s artmaking during the first four decades of his life.
Calder’s work is distinctive, each sculpture perfectly balanced and counterbalanced creating an elegant display of motion. It’s this kinetic art in motion which is why Calder’s work is so relevant to my own.
The reason is deep, and is explained by this landmark principle of Aesthetic Realism: “ All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. ” Calder’s work puts together joy and depth, lightness and heaviness in a way that makes for what people everywhere are yearning for.
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before...
Apr 17, 2019 · A new exhibition charting Alexander Calder’s atypical path into the modernist art canon is elegant, dramatic and great fun.
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Nov 27, 2017 · The premise of his project is that Calder is not a minor artist but seems so only because he has never slotted neatly into a fixed story of modernism. Calder fits neither...
