Alexander+Calder

 Alexander Calder 

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor & artist. He was born in 1898 to 1976 in Pennsylvania. He was the first artist to combine sculpture with movement as he invented the mobile. Calder first explored using untraditional materials by exploring their aesthetic possibilities.

Calder contributed to abstract art with his notion of a sculpture with masses and volumes. He also ‘drew’ three-dimensional figures using wire by bending and twisting it. He explores in geometric & organic shapes with a representation of nature such as snowflakes, animals & birds. He made his first sculpture in 1925 & in 1952 he won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale.

Painted metal and wire - hanging mobile, 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 7" The Lunder Collection || Cascading Flowers, 1949, painted metal, painted wire, and wire, 221 x 243.8 cm (87 x 96 in.) Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls ||
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 * //Untitled,//** 1946
 * = [[image:http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/mobile/calder_0961web.jpg width="375" height="420" align="right"]] ||= Alexander Calder,
 * = [[image:http://www.askart.com/AskART/images/interest/sculpture/Alexander_calder.jpg width="390" height="326" align="right"]] ||= Stegosaurus made in 1972-73 ||