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Alexander "Sandy" Calder (/ ˈ k ɔː l d ər /; 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]
His Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning film, Alexander Calder, is "an American masterpiece", said Charlie Rose. [6] Richard Rogers: The Sweetest Sounds was declared, "An extraordinary film biography, perhaps the best ever produced in the American Masters series" by Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal. [7]
He wrote the documentary film Alexander Calder, [2] which was broadcast on the PBS American Masters series in June 1998 and received both a George W. Peabody Award [3] and an Emmy. [4] Many of his book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review. [5] In 2016 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a book in progress, The Inner ...
Master Artist Alexander Calder and advertising executive George Gordon with Braniff Douglas DC-8 model painted by Mr. Calder in 1973. In 1972, Gordon approached Alexander Calder about painting a full sized jet airliner. Calder, the creator of the Mobile and Stabile art forms, agreed to meet with Gordon who explained the project.
The Calder Game is a children's novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist, published in 2008. It is the sequel to The Wright 3, which in turn is the sequel to Chasing Vermeer. Some underlying themes include the art of Alexander Calder, pentominoes, and the freedom of public art.
A CGI animation of the MoMA Snow Flurry. Year: 1948 Snow Flurry, I measures 238.7 cm × 208.8 cm and was gifted to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) by Calder in 1966. It was displayed at the Tate Modern in 2015, where curator Ann Coxon said that, based on the sculpture, "a sense of the natural world has also been important: [they were] looking at opening up some of the windows, getting a sense ...
Alexander Calder and four other artists were invited to submit proposals. Calder was approached through his dealer, Klaus Perls , on July 29, 1975, just after his 77th birthday. A sketch and a model for Mountains and Clouds were submitted by November and, in April 1976, Calder's innovative design was accepted.
After this, Calder created complete pieces only using wire and in 1927 had a show of wire sculptures at the Weyhe Gallery in New York City. In 1930, he had a solo show of wire sculptures in Paris, at Galerie Billiet. Calder’s wire sculptures of this period tended to be portraits, caricatures, and stylized representations of people and animals.