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Alexander Calder
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Alexander Calder, born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, was an artist who strove for innovation and is most celebrated for his kinetic sculptures which are composed of sheet metal and wires that are activated by air currents.
Surprisingly, Calder did not receive academic training in art but studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915. He recalls the impact of Piet Mondrian’s works on his early...
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Alexander Calder, born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, was an artist who strove for innovation and is most celebrated for his kinetic sculptures which are composed of sheet metal and wires that are activated by air currents.
Surprisingly, Calder did not receive academic training in art but studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915. He recalls the impact of Piet Mondrian’s works on his early experiments in his 1966 autobiography, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, “I suggested to Mondrian that perhaps it would be fun to make these rectangles oscillate….This one visit gave me a shock that started things.”
Calder's first solo exhibition was at the Gallery of Jacques Seligmann in Paris in 1927. His first solo show in a US commercial gallery was in 1928 at the Weyhe Gallery in New York City. He also exhibited with the Abstraction-Création group in Paris in 1933. He is often recalled for his ingenious works, described by his early supporter, art critic and later museum director James Johnson Sweeney as, “Calder is an original artist whose contribution is so unique that it may possibly only be appraised of its true value by the future.”
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Born
1898
Died
1976
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Friday Five
2 December 2022
Untitled (Flies...
Lithograph on paper
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Rs 3,60,000
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