Jan 18, 2024 · Alexander Calder created two forms of sculpture that became synonymous with modern art—the mobile and the stabile. Composed of disparate abstract shapes and often …

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) received a con-siderable share of the commissions for public sculp-ture both in this country and abroad. Government agencies and private industry, assuming …

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in …

Sculptor, world renowned for his stabiles and mobiles begun in the 1930s. Calder's vision was broad and groundbreaking, and his output was prodigious—ranging from small figurines to …

To increase the variety of movement and to create an aspect of unpredictability, Calder made mobiles whose motion came from the wind. Calder also made stabiles. By any other artist, it …

Jul 1, 1998 · Calder’s stabiles revitalized a stagnant art form, reintroduced color to outdoor works, and championed the tools and materials of the modern age. Calder was descended from a …

In particular he was famous for what Marcel Duchamp christened, ‘mobiles’, and what Jean Arp named ‘stabiles’. Here, Calder explains the difference between the two terms: The mobile has …

Apr 28, 2023 · Iconic American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898―1976) invented “mobiles”―carefully balanced, often whimsical kinetic hanging sculptures, powered by wind or …

Apr 15, 2024 · Beyond mobiles, Calder excelled in creating monumental sculptures, or “stabiles,” which, though immobile, carried the same essence of dynamism and playfulness, significantly …

Calder’s stabiles, on the other hand, are stationary sculptures that often reach monumental scales. Works like “La Grande Vitesse” (1969) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and “Flamingo” …

Calder created a huge stabile for the Fondation Maeght sculpture garden, titled Les Renforts. A fixed, three-dimensional sculpture made in 1964 from painted sheet metal, this monumental …

They don’t take themselves too seriously and like to experiment, this is where Alexander comes into his own. Calder always wanted to mix motion and sculpture into one, something that …

By 1952, American sculptor Alexander Calder was a celebrated artist, known for his innovative kinetic “mobiles ” and static “stabiles” —terms coined in 1931 and 1932 by artists Marcel …