A community portal about Alexander Calder with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Alexander Calder, also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to...
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A community portal about Alexander Calder with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Alexander Calder, also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs and tapestry and designed carpets.
Alexander Calder Jewelry Alexander Calder is an American artist, mainly known for his deep creativity regarding various artistic objects, paintings or furniture. But Calder is great in jewelry too, as his designs surely made him famous all over the world. Apparently, Alexander Calder loved creating jewelry so much, that his lifetime work includes 1800 pieces that can easily ornament and decorate the body. Not only did he use precious metals in his work, but he felt the need of mixing them... Read Full Story
The Shapes of Things to Come Exhibit Inspired by Alexander Calder Art Museum Collection Series People viewing Art / Miniature Paintings within Paintings 12 x 9 inches. The smallest Miniature Paintings within this Painting is 1.5 inches, the largest Miniature Painting is 2.5 x 3.5 inches. In 2005 I restored a water damaged original Calder and saved it. Since then I have had the idea to do a very modern geometric painting with unusual shapes for the walls in the museum and the paintings to fit... Read Full Story
Alexander Calder Jewelry Jewelry that's true art - these are the Alexander Calder jewelry designs.
American-born artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated for his mobiles, stabiles, paintings, and objets d’art. His inventive and very original jewelry has made him known all over the world, as, during his lifetime, Calder produced approximately 1,800 pieces of brass, silver and gold body ornaments, often embellished with found objects such as beach glass, ceramic shards, and wood... Read Full Story
I was at the coat check at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, deep in thought about the Alexander Calder exhibit I had just seen. I was thinking about how Calder truly exercised his imagination, creating wire sculptures of animals, faces and figures like no one had ever seen before. Not to mention his mobiles — they had to create the word "mobile" to describe his hanging art. So here I am contemplating creativity and congratulating myself for having spent such an enriching afternoon... Read Full Story
What happens when a brilliant artist’s parents tell him he’ll never make a living selling art? He goes to engineering school - and becomes an artist. Alexander Calder was a boy genius sculptor, and became famous for his mobiles. Put one of these Calder inspired works above the living room coffee table, or in the home office for that touch of art. Prices Range from $40 - $500. ($425 Shown). BUY Read Full Story
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Alexander Calder was born in 1898 and created the first kinetic moving art in 1931. This amazing art was called "mobiles" by his friend and Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp. Calder also created table top mobiles which were named "stabiles" by artist... Read Full Story
