In the early 1930s, Alexander Calder’s mobiles provided a dynamic, new experience of sculpture that incorporated movement, activating their architectural settings and inviting viewers’ engagement. French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, once wrote that a Calder mobile is “a pure stream of movement in the same way as there are pure streams of light.” In this video, the High’s Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, Claudia Einecke, talks about this amazing work of art and gives a

Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated today as the American artist who made sculpture move. Although best known for his invention of the mobile‚ he worked in astonishingly varied media‚ including drawing‚ painting and sculpture‚ as well as set design for dance and music performances. Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor now open, NGV International. #NGV #NGVCalder • © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Copyright Agency, Australia. | National Gallery of Victoria

Experience works by Alexander Calder as the artist intended—in motion. Calder: Hypermobility features major examples of Calder’s work including early motor-driven abstractions, sound-generating Gongs, and standing and hanging mobiles. The exhibition includes daily activations, one-time demonstrations of rarely seen works, and new commissions that bring contemporary artists into dialogue with Calder’s innovations. Get tickets: http://bit.ly/2uG1WGg | Whitney Museum of American Art

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 mobiles, Calder began to explore the concept

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American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated for revolutionizing sculpture with his renowned mobiles and stabiles, which range from the miniature to the monumental. "Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection" traces Calder's career over 45 works, highlighting his most important themes, styles, and materials from the 1920s through the 1970s while celebrating the transformative gift to SAM from patrons Jon and Kim Shirley. Experience the unique vision of a modern artist who le

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. In the mid-1930s, in addition to developing his classic mobiles, Calder began to explore the concept of creating three-dimensional paintings in motion. The movement of these sculptures results in flashes of forms and colors, a complex choreography of elements that blurs the line between circumstance and permane

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