I didn’t know about Alexander Calder till I saw his exhibition at Musée Picasso in Paris, his art works were displayed together with Picasso’s works. Alexander Calder is known for inventing wire sculptures and the mobile, a type of kinetic art which relied on careful weighting to achieve balance and suspension in the air. He didn't limit his art to sculptures; he also created paintings, jewelry, theatre sets and costumes.
An important Alexander Calder work is the monumental "Floating Clouds" (1952-1953) of the Aula Magna (Central University of Venezuela) of the University City of Caracas in Venezuela. This work is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Calder's clouds were specially designed to combine art and technology, making the auditorium one of the top 5 university auditoriums in the world by sound quality. | ||
| Photo: Wikimedia While residing in France between 1926 and 1933, he cleverly
constructed three-dimensional art works
using wires which give impression of
‘drawings in space’, he turned out charming representations of birds,
cows, elephants, horses, and other animals, including the extraordinary Romulus
and Remus of 1928 that depicts the mythical founders of Rome being nursed by a
she-wolf.  Photo: Wikimedia With seemingly inexhaustible energy, Alexander Calder
expanded the repertoire of forms in his mobiles from spheres to discs to
organic shapes adapted from plants and animals. The World War II years saw
shortages of sheet metal, and Calder turned toward bits of wood, shards of
glass and ceramics, tin cans, and other refuse he found on his Roxbury
property, creating a series dubbed Constellations and some of his most-beloved
works, including Finny Fish, 1948. THE END |
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