Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon | Calder Foundation
Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon | Calder Foundation
Feb 20, 2021
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In the beginning of Hans Richter’s 1963 film Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon, the artist finds a rusty spoon on his Roxbury property. “[He] bends the spoon and slowly reveals, with effortless precision, the utensil’s transformation into an intimate, animated standing mobile,” writes Kaitlyn A. Kramer. “The petite sculpture is added to a prolific collection of other tabletop works whose mobile tops Calder activates with his breath.” Watch the full film: https://tinyurl.com/zdssd4wm
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In the beginning of Hans Richter’s 1963 film Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon, the artist finds a rusty spoon on his Roxbury property. “[He] bends the spoon and slowly reveals, with effortless precision, the utensil’s transformation into an intimate, animated standing mobile,” writes Kaitlyn A. Kramer. “The petite sculpture is added to a prolific collection of other tabletop works whose mobile tops Calder activates with his breath.” Watch the full film: https://tinyurl.com/zdssd4wm
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Experience Calder's exuberant art, from early wire works to jewelry, mobiles, and monumental sculptures. | MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Experience Calder's exuberant art, from early wire works to jewelry, mobiles, and monumental sculptures. | MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Alexander Calder: Recent Works opened at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City on this day in 1941. “When agitated by the slightest breath of wind, [the mobiles] take on, in effect, the static rhythms of abstract design set in motion … the so-called leaves of the mobile are colored in various hues with due regard for possible contrasts and harmonies, the effect is fascinating,” Melville Upton wrote in a review of the exhibition published in the New York Sun. “The mere passing of a person throu
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Alexander Calder: Recent Works opened at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City on this day in 1941. “When agitated by the slightest breath of wind, [the mobiles] take on, in effect, the static rhythms of abstract design set in motion … the so-called leaves of the mobile are colored in various hues with due regard for possible contrasts and harmonies, the effect is fascinating,” Melville Upton wrote in a review of the exhibition published in the New York Sun. “The mere passing of a person throu
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Understanding Alexander Calder through 6 Pivotal Artworks
Understanding Alexander Calder through 6 Pivotal Artworks
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Today marks the start of a new era for modern art at SAM as we open “Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection.” Experience over 45 of Alexander Calder’s innovative and awe-inspiring mobiles, stabiles, works on paper, and more now on view at our downtown location. We can’t wait for you to see this incredible collection of artworks by this pioneering American artist. Reserve your tickets at visitsam.org/calder! ❗And don’t forget: Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Professor of Art History at the Uni
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Alexander Calder’s Archive Goes Online: Explore 1400 Works of Art by the Modernist Sculptor
Mar 8, 2021
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National Gallery of Art on Instagram: "Alone in a tower filled with the world’s largest display of sculptures by Alexander Calder. ✨ In this room filled with moving sculptures by Calder, giant mobiles are suspended in the sky. They turn and dance as you cohabit their space. One of the most extraordinary things about these deceptively gravity-defying objects is that they are supported by a force the size of your thumbnail: a tiny hook. In the mid-1930s, in addition to developing his classic mobil
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