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Alexander Calder began his career as an engineer before discovering his passion for art and sculpture. He was heavily influenced by abstract art and began creating moveable sculptures and props for his miniature circus. In 1931, he started making his first suspended moving sculptures called "mobiles" which were originally powered by motors but later moved by wind. Calder constructed mobiles by cutting abstract shapes from sheet metal and wire, carefully arranging and balancing the pieces as he added new branches.
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- 1. Alexander Calder My whole theory about art is the disparity (difference) that exists between form, masses and movement. http://calder.org/work/category/hangingmobile.html
- 3. Alexander Calder, born in 1898, began his career as an engineer before realising his passion for design and enrolling in the Art Students League in New York.
- 5. His work was heavily influenced by the abstract style and after being invited to join Abstract-creation, an influencial group of artists, he discovered his ability in sculpture which he practised by making animals and props that were moveable for use in his own miniture circus.
- 7. In 1931 he began work on his first suspended moving sculptures, originally moved by a system of cranks and motors, which were called mobiles (meaning both motion and motive). Later these mobiles would be powered by the wind.
- 9. Alexander Calder's hanging mobiles were mostly made of aluminum sheet metal, and steel wire. He used hand tools such as wire cutters, snips, pliers, files, and other metal working tools to make them. Sometimes he would join pieces together by using metal rivets, a type of bolt or pin.
- 13. Calder constructed his mobiles by first cutting out random abstract shapes from the sheet metal, filing the edges to smooth them, and then laying out and arranging the pieces in different patterns until he found one that he liked. Then he would connect the pieces together with wire, starting with the bottom pieces first, and then moving upwards adding new "branches", carefully balancing each new piece as he went along.
- 19. Think about what shapes can you recognize in the work of Calder and which feelings, emotions or sensation you get from his art/design.