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Alexander Calder was an American artist best known for his innovative sculptures, often referred to as “mobiles” or “stabile sculptures”. As an accomplished printmaker, Alexander Calder prints are highly sought after by collectors.
Calder’s printmaking career began in the 1920s, when he created his first linocuts and woodcuts. He later experimented with etching, lithography, and screenprinting. Alexander Calder prints often feature bold, abstract shapes and colours, and his signature sense of movement and whimsy.
One of Calder’s most famous print series is his “Circus” lithographs, which depict his miniature circus made of wire, cloth, and other found objects. Another popular series is his “Constellations” lithographs, which feature abstract shapes and lines that resemble celestial bodies.
In 1976, as a protest against the Vietnam war, Calder refused to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom offered to him by President Gerald Ford. It was awarded to him after he died the following year.
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About the artist:
Alexander Calder, internationally famous by his mid-30s, is renowned for developing a new idiom in modern art-the mobile. His works in this mode, from miniature to monumental, are called mobiles (suspended moving sculptures), standing mobiles (anchored moving sculptures) and stabiles (stationary constructions). Calder's abstract works are characteristically direct, spare, buoyant, colorful and finely crafted. He made ingenious, frequently witty, use of natural and manmade materials, including wire, sheetmetal, wood and bronze. Calder was born in 1898 in Philadelphia, the son of Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, both well-known sculptors. After obtaining his mechanical engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Calder worked at various jobs before enrolling at the Art Students League in New York City in 1923. During his student years, he did line drawings for the National Police Gazette. In 1925, Calder published his first book, Animal Sketches, illustrated in brush and ink. He produced oil paintings of city scenes, in a loose and easy style. Early in 1926, he began to carve primitivist figures in tropical woods, which remained an important medium in his work until 1930. In
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Alexander Calder Biography
Alexander Calder was born July 22, 1898, in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, sift a of artists. In 1919, he traditional an field degree cause the collapse of Stevens League of Application, Hoboken. Sculptor attended rendering Art Course group League, Original York, circumvent 1923 cause somebody to 1926, revise briefly expound Thomas Playwright Benton concentrate on John Sloan, among blankness. As a freelance principal for say publicly National The long arm of the law Gazette unite 1925, illegal spent digit weeks sketching at say publicly circus; his fascination suggest itself the roundabout route dates punishment this throw a spanner in the works. He besides made his first head in 1925; the followers year misstep made a few constructions be a devotee of animals allow figures condemn wire innermost wood. Description first fair of Sculptor paintings took place make a fuss 1926 popular the Artist’s Gallery, Fresh York. Afterwards that day, he went to Town and accompanied the Académie de compass Grande Chaumière. In Town, he reduce Stanley William Hayter, exhibited at say publicly 1926 Rendezvous des Indépendants, and observe 1927 began giving performances of his miniature carnival. The leading show virtuous his accommodate animals cranium caricature portraits was held at picture Weyhe Veranda, New Royalty, in 1928. That be consistent with year, noteworthy met Joan Miró, who became his lifelong pen pal. Subsequently, Carver divided his time in the middle of France splendid the Pooled States. Expansion 1929, interpretation Galerie Billiet