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Cirque Calder is an artistic rendering of a circus created by the American artist Alexander Calder. It involves wire models rigged to perform the various functions of the circus performers they represent, from contortionists to sword eaters to lion tamers. The models are composed of diverse materials, most notably wire and wood.
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.
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Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 – June 4, 1923) (MILL-nee) was a Scottish American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. [1] Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder , and grandson, Alexander Calder , became significant sculptors in the 20th century.
Alexander Calder – Cirque Calder (wire sculpture) Alexander Stirling Calder – Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Salvador Dalí – The Basket of Bread; Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon; Edwin Dickinson – The Cello Player; Max Ernst
Flamingo weighs 50 tons, is composed of steel, and is vermilion in color. Calder gave the stabile its color, which has come to be called "Calder red", [5] to offset it from the black and steel surroundings of nearby office buildings, including the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Kluczynski Federal Building.
Apr. 3—DALLAS — The 73rd Irem Shrine Circus will be scaled-down version at a new location, but organizers promise "the show will go on." John Richards, Irem Shrine Circus Chairman, said the ...
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 ...