Wire Sculpture by Calder (1928) - Calder Foundation
Made of wire and a spectrum of found materials, the Cirque was a work of performance art that gained Calder an introduction to the Parisian avant-garde. He continued to explore his invention of wire sculpture, whereby he “drew” with wire in three dimensions the portraits of friends, animals, circus themes, and personalities of the day.
Alexander Calder - 238 artworks - sculpture - WikiArt.org
Made of wire, wood, metal, cloth, leather, these sculptures were specifically designed to be manipulated by Calder. The artist gave performances of his kinetic circus in New York and Paris throughout the 1930s, receiving critical acclaim for his elaborate creation of …
Alexander Calder Sculptures, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
Calder shifted from figurative linear sculptures in wire to nonobjective forms in motion by creating the first mobiles. Composed of pivoting lengths of wire counterbalanced with thin metal elements, the appearance of the entire piece was randomly arranged and rearranged in space by chance simply by the air moving the individual parts.
Who is Alexander Calder? - Tate
Alexander Calder is known for inventing wire sculptures and the mobile, a type of kinetic art which relied on careful weighting to achieve balance and suspension in the air. Initially Calder used motors to make his works move, but soon abandoned this method and began using air …
Portrait of a Man (c. 1928) - Calder Foundation
Made of wire and a spectrum of found materials, the Cirque was a work of performance art that gained Calder an introduction to the Parisian avant-garde. He continued to explore his invention of wire sculpture, whereby he “drew” with wire in three dimensions the portraits of friends, animals, circus themes, and personalities of the day.
Elephant (c. 1927) - Calder Foundation
Made of wire and a spectrum of found materials, the Cirque was a work of performance art that gained Calder an introduction to the Parisian avant-garde. He continued to explore his invention of wire sculpture, whereby he “drew” with wire in three dimensions the portraits of friends, animals, circus themes, and personalities of the day.
Alexander Calder | Biography, Sculpture, Mobiles, & Stabiles
2024年11月7日 · Alexander Calder (1898–1976) was an American artist best known for his innovative mobiles—suspended sheet metal and wire assemblies that are activated in space by air currents—and stabiles—monumental outdoor sculptures built from bolted sheet metal.
Wire sculpture - Wikipedia
Alexander Calder (July 22,1898–November 11,1976), an American sculptor, greatly developed the use of wire as a medium for sculpture with his kinetic and movement-based Cirque Calder, as well as pieces such as Two Acrobats, Romulus and Remus, and Hercules and Lion.
Alexander Calder | Wire Sculpture by Calder | Whitney Museum …
Alexander Calder, Wire Sculpture by Calder, 1928. Wire, overall: 48 1/4 × 25 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (122.6 × 65.7 × 12.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Howard and Jean Lipman 72.168. © Calder Foundation, New York / …
Alexander Calder - MoMA
Ranging from delicate, intimate, figurative objects in wood and wire, to hanging sculptures that move, to monumentally scaled abstract works in steel and aluminum, Calder’s art suggests the elemental systems that animate life itself.