Alexander " Sandy " Calder (/ ˈkɔːldər /; – ) 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] Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the ...
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Alexander Calder was born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, into a family of artists—his grandfather and father were sculptors, and his mother a painter—an environment that shaped his early ...
Alexander Calder (1898–1976) was an American artist best known for his innovative mobiles—suspended sheet metal and wire assemblies that are activated in space by air currents—and stabiles—monumental outdoor sculptures built from bolted sheet metal.
In 1926 as a young American artist living in Paris, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) began making what is today considered his most formative work of art: Calder’s Circus. Calder created a miniature spectacle of circus animals and characters that he would enact for live audiences, complete with handmade stage props, music, and lighting. Performances of the multiact Calder’s Circus, or Cirque ...
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 | Whitney Museum of American Art
“One of Calder’s objects is like the sea,” wrote the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “always beginning over again, always new.” 1 Alexander Calder conceived of sculpture as an experiment in space and motion. Ranging from delicate, intimate, figurative objects in wood and wire, to hanging sculptures that move, to monumentally scaled abstract works in steel and aluminum, Calder’s art ...