Alexander Calder
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Alexander Calder |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality: |
American |
| Birth: |
1898 |
| Death: |
1976 |
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Abstract Kinetic |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
Sculptor
Printmaker |
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Biography
| Born in 1898, Alexander Calder was an engineer-turned sculptor from Pennsylvania. After deciding to pursue art exclusively, Calder moved to New York to study art. After graduating, Calder then went to Paris in 1926, established a studio, and began creating elaborate children's toys. Some of which went into mass production in America. During his time in France, Calder rose to acclaim through his creation of 'stabiles,' orstatic sculptures. His sculptures were highly influenced by the ideas of abstract artists like Mondrian and Miro, making him a part of the Abstraction-Creation school of the 1930s. Later, Calder added movement to these wire sculptures, thus earning them the name 'mobiles.' Calder is still his best known for his kinetic mobiles in addition to his monumental sculptures today, some examples of which include the International Mobile, .125 (JFK Airport), and El Sol Rojo (Mexico City). Back in New York, Calder worked primarily in painting gouache in the years before his death in 1976. |
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