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Alexander Calder (/ ˈ k ɔː l d ər /; 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]
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.
Alexander Calder (born July 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.
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Oct 24, 2017 · How a Legendary Alexander Calder Installation Got Ensnared in Sears’s Tortuous Bankruptcy Saga. By Tim Schneider, Jan 17, 2019
Oct 18, 2023 · An introduction to artist Alexander Calder, the American great who began ‘drawing in space’ before so memorably inventing the mobile
Jan 18, 2019 · Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was one of the most prolific, recognizable, and beloved American artists of the 20th century. He was a pioneer of kinetic sculpture or mobiles: works with discreet moving parts.
Apr 17, 2019 · Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor is on at the National Gallery of Victoria until August 4. A new exhibition charting Alexander Calder’s atypical path into the modernist art canon is elegant...
