Although working on these early abstract painting, Calder began to contemplate a new style of abstract sculpture : sculptures that would appear in the Percier Galerie in Paris six months later.
Alexander Calder ( ; 22 July 1898 — 11 November 1976 ) was an American sculptor and an inventor of the “mobile” and kinetic art, from 1926 to 1933 hailed as the “king of the threads” for his cleverly constructed 3D images.
His art is not limited to sculptures, but also creates paintings, decorations, theater sets and costumes; he chooses not to analyze his own works, saying that “theories are good for the artist himself, but should not be passed on to others.” Calder was born in a family of artists, but it was not until 1923 that he moved to New York and began to study at the Art Students League, which specifically sought to work as an artist.
Calders’ art offers rudimentary systems that bring life to life – from delicate, intimate sculpted objects made of wood and wire to moving suspended sculptures and monumental large-scale abstract works in steel and aluminum – his Cirque Calder – work which includes dozens of hand-crafted miniature pieces he has performed for an audience of fellow artists and friends. The Cirque Calder – Show will run for about two hours and will outperform the performing arts by nearly forty years.
A year later he invented his first mobile — a term coined by Marcel Duchamp to describe Calder’s new kinetic sculptures — by stabilizing motionless painted metal structures. In the sixties and seventies buildings acquired colossal dimensions, suitable for the public spaces for which they were often commissioned.
The description remained and subsequently was often used to describe. Calders’ work. Calders’ kinetic sculptures are considered one of the earliest manifestations of art which deliberately moved away from the traditional idea of a work of art as static object and combined the ideas of gesture and immateriality as aesthetic factors. The sculptures of Calders were called mobile by Marcel Duchamp “mobile” which means movement and “motive” in French.
One of Calder’s earlier interests in motion soon emerged in his figurative wire sculptures with mechanical sensibility, some of his later abstract sculptures work with cranks and motors, but his real breakthrough came with the invention of the suspended sculpture, which in part is driven by the artist’s passion and dedication to choreography, the sculptures have built-in performativity reflected in their idiosyncratic movements and the perceptual reactions they produce.
In the early 1930s Calder invented an entirely new art form, the mobile – a form of kinetic sculpture in which carefully balanced components present their own unique systems of movement. These pieces work in a very sophisticated way ranging from delicate spins to disturbing gestures and sometimes triggering unpredictable percussive sounds.
Flat, abstract forms crafted from steel boldly painted in a narrow primary palette, white or black, pair perfectly with yarns. Calder Lightness, Richard Tuttle Wire Pieces, Fred Sandback 64 pieces in three parts (exhibition catalog).
Exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Congress of American Artists (1936-1942) (show catalog). 75th anniversary painting and sculpture exhibit by 75 artists associated with the Art Students League of New York (show catalog).
Alexander Calder (born July 22, 1898, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, USA — November 11, 1976, New York, NY) is an American artist renowned for his innovations in moving suspended metal sheets and cable assemblies activated by air currents in space. These sculptures – along with his monumental outdoor bolt-on stands that involve only movement – make Calder one of the most recognizable and beloved artists of our time.
In particular, he was known for using metal and mechanisms in his work including Marcel Duchamp’s physics, astronomy and kinetics and for baptizing what Jean Arp called stable.
By 1933, Calder returned to the United States where his abstract-organic sculptures, both mobile and stationary, attracted considerable attention and recognition. He settled in Connecticut and continued to create pioneering works on a large and small scale. Between 2001 and 2003, Storm King exhibited three exhibitions of Calder’s work here, including a monumental outdoor sculpture installation.
However, Five Swords has been in the same position for over twenty-five years. The artist was encouraged from a young age to be creative and in the end made a fundamental decision to go into art.
