Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calderwas an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. Calder’s monumental stationary sculptures are called stabiles. He also produced wire figures, which are like drawings made in space, and notably a miniature circus work that was performed by the artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth22 July 1898
CityLawnton, PA
CountryUnited States of America
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners, seems to me the ideal source of form.
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
You see nature and then you try to emulate it.