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Alexander Calder was an American artist best known for inventing the mobile, a type of sculpture made of balanced, moving parts suspended in air. His innovative approach to art transformed how people understood sculpture and movement, making him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Alexander Calder. Multum in Parvo
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- 30
- Total plays
- 59
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Quotes
- “Before, the wire studies were subjective, portraits, caricatures, stylized representations of beasts and humans. But these recent things have been viewed from a more objective angle and although their present size is diminutive, I feel that there is no limitation to the scale to which they can be enlarged....”
- “One of the canons of the futuristic painters, as propounded by Modigliani, was that objects behind other objects should not be lost to view, but should be shown through the others by making the latter transparent. The wire sculpture accomplishes this in a most decided manner.”
- “The various objects of the universe may be constant, at times, but their reciprocal relationships always vary.”
- “We notice the movement of automobiles and beings in the street, but we do not notice that the earth turns. We believe that automobiles go at a great speed on a fixed ground; yet the speed of the earth's rotation at the equator is 40,000 km every 24 hours.”
- “As truly serious art must follow the greater laws, and not only appearances, I try to put all the elements in motion in my mobile sculptures.”
- “It is a matter of harmonizing these movements, thus arriving at a new possibility for beauty.”
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Key facts
- Movement
- Kinetic art , surrealism , abstraction
- Born
- July 22, 1898, Lawnton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- November 11, 1976 (1976-11-11) (aged 78), New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Stevens Institute of Technology , Art Students League of New York
- Known for
- Sculpture
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.calder.org
- Image
- Alexander Calder 1968.jpg
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- Alexander Calder
- date of death
- 1976-11-11
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- name in native language
- Alexander Calder
- pseudonym
- Calder, Sandy, 1898-1976
- start of work period
- 1920-01-01
- end of work period
- 1976-01-01
- date of birth
- 1898-07-22
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Alexander Calder, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander "Sandy" Calder (/ˈkɔːldər/; 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. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people." His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, were also sculptors.
Early life and education
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