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Alexander Calder has become synonymous with moving sculptures, or as they are famously known, mobiles. He epitomized movement in art and made it playful and abstract. His art was diverse and moved in a myriad of fashions, both figuratively and literally, in the air and on land. Some also stood still.
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Mobile Alexander Calder American 1941 Not on view Alexander Calder was born to a family of sculptors. His grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder (1846-1923), studied with Thomas Eakins and is famous for the elaborate sculptural decorations of Philadelphia's City Hall.
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Calder's mobiles are streamlined in a recognisably art deco way, and they speak the international language of speed and flight. Yet his works' origami delicacy means they are often luddite,.
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In summer 1934, just a year after moving to Roxbury, Connecticut, Calder made his first standing mobiles for the outdoors, prompting further development of monumental works. As Calder recounted in 1937, "I have made a number of things for the open air.
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L01686 Display caption By suspending forms that move with the flow of air, Calder revolutionised sculpture. Marcel Duchamp dubbed these works ' mobiles '. Rather than a solid object of mass and weight, they continually redefine the space around them as they move.
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But it wasn't until a decade later that the most iconic moving art appeared: Alexander Calder's mobiles. Their creation was largely the result of a 1930 visit by the burly Pennsylvania-born.
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Overview. Alexander Calder's monumental mobile moves solely on the air currents in the East Building's Central Court. The sculptor originally intended the work to have a motor, but the use of advanced, lightweight materials made this unnecessary. Paul Matisse, grandson of the French artist Henri Matisse, enlarged Calder's original concept.
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Calder-Inspired Modern Mobiles and Stunning Kinetic Art Hanging Mobile Gallery features modern mobiles, kinetic art, and art mobiles in every size and style. Our talented artists create museum-quality mobiles inspired by Calder and other mid-century artists.
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Artist Alexander Calder was the originator of the mobile. By suspending forms that move with the flow of air, Calder revolutionised sculpture. It was Marcel Duchamp who dubbed these works 'mobiles'. Rather than a solid object of mass and weight, they continually redefine the space around them as they move.
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Calder, Mobile Arts and humanities > Modernisms 1900-1980 > American art to WWII > American sculpture before WWII ยฉ 2024 Khan Academy Privacy Policy Calder, Mobile Google Classroom About Transcript Met curator Marla Prather on motion in Alexander Calder's Mobile, 1941. Alexander Calder was born to a family of sculptors.
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With a degree in mechanical engineering and a passion for the arts, Alexander Calder experimented with Kinetic art through the creation of two different types of sculpture: the mobile and the stabile. Composed of delicately balanced components that respond to air currents, Calder's mobiles are graceful and poised.
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Calder in many respects invented an art form where objects (typically brightly coloured, abstract shapes fashioned from sheet metal) are connected by wire much like a balance scale.
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Alexander Calder ( / หkษหldษr /; 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]