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“Why must art stand still? The next step in sculpture is motion.” - Alexander Calder
Calder was a famous artist. He invented a new type of Sculpture:
They were all made from abstract metal shapes.
Mobiles
Mobiles were always in motion and are never the same! Why?
He also created the first type of
large, public art known as...
Stabiles
Not it is Your Turn!
You will create your own wire stabile sculpture. Let's get started!
Sandy first went to school for Engineering, learning how to design engines and machines. He did not enjoy it much. He eventually became an artist.
His first job was to illustrate a circus that came to town in New York. This inspired him.
As Calder grew older he continued to create
sculptures out of everyday materials. Sculptures
also transitioned into functional everyday objects
that were used by himself and his wife on a daily basis.
Sandy combined the lines and shapes
found in his mobiles, but this time, put them on the ground. The words Stable and Mobile go together to create Stabiles.
Sandy grew up in an art family. His father and grandfather were both sculptors. The Calder family traveled a lot. Sandy kept busy by making toys for himself and his sister, Peggy. He made them out of old buttons, cloth, and bits of wire.
Calder was born in Lawnton, PA in 1898. His friends and family called him Sandy.
As a child was fascinated by the stars, planets and how machines work.
Mr. Calder
Alexander Calder was a creative and Playful Artist who...
An artist with an imagination!
Sandy moved to Paris to study art with the Masters. He loved the painter Mondrian. Sandy thought it would be fun if Mondrian's colors and shapes could move.
He took Mondrian's
ideas and created...
He made them out of wire. He painted metal and
began to hang them without a stand.
Most of Sandy's mobiles were about the planets. Can you tell? Why?
Each mobile moves in space and reacts to the wind.
Notice the shadow?
Calder's love for wire which he used all the time as a kid, allowed him to discover how to use wire to transform the Element of Art "line" into 3-D wire drawings...
Goldfish Bowl. 1929.
Picture Citations
http://www.masterworksfineart.com/inventory/calder
http://www.original.rolandcollection.com/rolandcollection/section/25/621.htm
http://sculptrue.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
http://www.pinterest.com/theartroomplant/alexander-calder/
http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/wallpaper/piet_mondrian/
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/calder-untitled-t07920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_(sculpture)
http://www.josephklevenefineartltd.com/NewSite/Calder.htm#.UmyEYvmsiFw
http://thehairpin.com/2013/09/estate-jewelry-the-original-burning-man-and-a-ring-for-the-birds
http://quotes-pictures.feedio.net/alexander-calder-mobile-jpg/static.skynetblogs.be*media*37074*alexander-calder-mobile.jpg/