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Alexander Calder - Wikipedia Alexander " Sandy " Calder ( ˈkɔːldər ; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures [1]
Calder Foundation The Calder Foundation is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and interpreting the art and archives of Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder | Biography, Sculpture, Mobiles, Stabiles . . . Alexander Calder (born July 22 or August 22, 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania, U S —died November 11, 1976, New York, New York) was an American artist best known for his innovation of the mobile suspended sheet metal and wire assemblies that are activated in space by air currents
Alexander Calder | Mobile | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Indeed, it was the French artist Marcel Duchamp who christened Calder's hanging sculptures "mobiles " For works such as this one, Calder cut sheet metal into various shapes and assembled these elements in a chain-linked system so that the flat metal pieces move in response to currents of air
Alexander Calder - MoMA With a series of human likenesses made from wire bent into formation, Calder used line to float shape, levitate it, and remove sculpture from the pedestal, evoking volume without the accompanying mass