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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist born in 1898 in Pennsylvania who is renowned for inventing mobiles, kinetic sculptures that move with air currents or motorized systems. Over 50 years, Calder pioneered moving sculpture and created massive sculptural works, bringing playfulness and whimsy to his art. He had a childlike perspective that imbued his innovative wire sculptures and mobiles with liveliness and charm.
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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist born in 1898 in Pennsylvania. He is known for inventing mobiles, moving sculptures made of weighted objects that are balanced to move freely in response to air currents. Calder made play and movement the major themes of his art over his 50-year career. He created sculptures out of unusual materials like wire, wood, and sheet metal. Some of his most famous mobiles and sculptures include "Mobile", "Devil Fish", "Mercury Fountain", and "Five Swords". Calder had a childlike view of the world that was reflected in his innovative and interactive kinetic artworks.
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor best known for inventing the mobile, a kinetic sculpture that moves with air currents. He created thousands of sculptures over his career, including both mobiles that moved and stationary sculptures called "stabiles". Some of his most famous works included "Romulus and Remus" from 1928 and the 30-ton steel sculpture "Flamingo" installed in downtown Chicago in 1973.
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The document discusses kinetic sculptures by American artist Alexander Calder from the 1920s-1970s. It lists the titles and dates of some of Calder's most famous mobiles and stabiles, including Circus, Josephine Baker Portrait, Red Mobile, The Star, The Crab, and Mobile with Red Circle. Calder is known for his balanced mobiles that incorporate points, curves, and abstract shapes in motion.
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Alexander Calder was an American modern artist born in 1898 in Pennsylvania to a family of artists. He is most famous for inventing the mobile, a kinetic art form consisting of abstract shapes suspended from wires that move with air currents. After studying engineering, Calder began attending art school in New York in 1923 and created miniature circuses that fascinated him, leading to his interest in kinetic art and mobiles. He lived in Connecticut for most of his life, creating colorful abstract mobiles and sculptures until his death in 1976.
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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor born in 1898 who pioneered kinetic art. He began creating small sculptures that moved in 1909. In the 1920s, he studied engineering but rediscovered his passion for art. In 1926 in Paris, he created Cirque Calder, a life-sized kinetic circus. This led him to develop mobiles, abstract sculptures moved by air currents, and stabiles, static sculptures. Calder created mobiles and stabiles for decades, gaining recognition. His largest works were commissioned internationally in the 1950s-70s, making him one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century.
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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist born in 1898 in Philadelphia to a family of artists. He studied mechanical engineering and art, and created kinetic sculptures and mobiles that incorporated movement. In 1926 he moved to Paris where he created toys, circus performances, and wire portraits of his artist friends. He is known for inventing mobiles, sculptures that moved suspended from the ceiling, as well as stabiles, static sculptures made of metal. His mobiles and stabiles can be found in public spaces around the world.
Alexander Calder
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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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and painter born in 1898 in Pennsylvania. He began making sculptures out of found materials as a child. After studying engineering, he moved to Paris in 1926 where he began making kinetic wire sculptures inspired by the circus, called "Cirque Calder". These mobile sculptures moved with air currents and became his signature style. Calder gained international fame for his large-scale public sculptures later in his career. He continued sculpting and painting until his death in 1976.
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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist born in 1898 in Philadelphia to a family of artists. He studied mechanical engineering and art, and created kinetic sculptures and mobiles that incorporated movement. In 1926 he moved to Paris where he created toys, circus performances, and wire portraits of his artist friends. He is known for inventing mobiles, sculptures that moved suspended from the ceiling, as well as stabiles, static sculptures made of metal. His mobiles and stabiles can be found in public spaces around the world.
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Alexander Calder was an American artist known for creating moving mobiles and sculptures made of wire. Some of his most famous works included large outdoor sculptures like "Flamingo" in Chicago and "L'Homme" in France, which measures over 20 meters tall. Calder was also an inventor who pioneered kinetic sculptures that moved through motors or air currents, like his mobile "Red Lily Pads" displayed at the Guggenheim Museum.
ASP 1900-29
The document provides an overview of art and visual culture in America from 1900-1930. It discusses the Ashcan School artists who sought to depict urban reality in the early 20th century. It also covers the emergence of modernism through exhibitions like the Armory Show. Major developments included the rise of cinema, photography addressing social issues, and Art Deco style in the 1920s reflecting the exuberance of the postwar era.
Lewis Carroll "Alice: Through the looking Glass"
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was a 19th century English writer, mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon known for his works of literary nonsense such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The document discusses Carroll's most famous works, quotes and illustrations from Through the Looking-Glass, adaptations of Alice's stories into films and television, and examples of student drawings inspired by Carroll's works.
Mathematical Models and Modern Art
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CLAES OLDENBURG DES 104 PRESENTATION
Claes Oldenburg was an American artist known for his pop art sculptures that blurred the lines between art and everyday objects. He began his career making sculptures and installations out of common materials found in urban environments. His 1961 exhibit The Store featured plaster sculptures of consumer goods that challenged notions of what art could be. Oldenburg is renowned for his large-scale public sculptures later in his career, like the 45-foot Clothespin in Philadelphia. He transformed familiar items into whimsical and oversized artworks that commented on consumer culture and social norms.
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Vance Kirkland was an American painter known for his experimentation with abstraction and color fields across five major periods over his 54-year career. He received his art education at the Cleveland Institute of Art before moving to Denver in 1924, where he would live and work for the rest of his life. Kirkland helped establish Denver as a center for modern art through his own pioneering abstract works, his teaching, and his promotion of arts organizations in the city. Though largely unknown outside of Colorado during his lifetime, Kirkland's innovative techniques and use of color anticipated many postwar art movements.
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Constructivism was an art movement that originated in Russia between 1915-1940. It sought to create an abstract, experimental art that rejected the past and embraced modernity. Constructivist artworks pared compositions down to their basic elements and were rarely emotional. Prominent Constructivist artists included Vladimir Tatlin, Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, and Alexandra Exter. Their works from this period explored abstraction and the integration of art into everyday life.
Kirkland Museum: Colorado Abstract Expression
1) Abstract Expressionism began in New York in the late 1940s but also had significant contributions from artists in Colorado and California.
2) Key Abstract Expressionist artists in New York included Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and others who developed styles using techniques like drip painting and vivid color fields.
3) Artists in Colorado and California also made important contributions to the movement, with groups in places like Colorado Springs, Denver, and San Francisco developing their own variations of Abstract Expressionist techniques and philosophies.
Abstractionism
Abstractionism was an art movement between 1910-mid 1900s that used abstract principles, shapes, and color to represent thoughts rather than realistic subjects. It was influenced by Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism and spread worldwide with artists like Kandinsky, Malevich, and O'Keeffe. There were three main forms: geometric using mathematical shapes, organic using irregular natural shapes, and lyrical with emotional connections. Famous abstractionist artists included Kandinsky who believed color provoked emotion, Malevich who founded Suprematism, O'Keeffe influenced by nature, and Mondrian who used basic colors and forms.
Assemblage sculpture
Assemblage involves bonding found objects together to create sculptures. It allows artists to give new meaning to everyday items. Famous assemblage artists include Marcel Duchamp, who created readymades like Bicycle Wheel and Fountain, and Louise Nevelson, who assembled wood scraps into monumental black sculptures. Robert Rauschenberg is also known for his combines, which merged paintings and found objects into mixed media works like Monogram, featuring a stuffed goat.
Earth art
Earth art, also known as land art, earthworks, or environmental art, involves creating artworks directly in nature using natural materials like stones, leaves, mud, and twigs. The document discusses several earth artists like Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, and Richard Long. It provides examples of their artworks, which are typically large-scale sculptures or installations created outdoors using materials found in the natural environment. The emergence of earth art in the 1960s-70s was influenced by a reaction against commercialism and a desire to create art outside the gallery setting and integrate it with the natural world.
Chapter 19 taking chances with popular culture
Pop Art began in England in the 1950s as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism. Key early figures included Richard Hamilton, who coined the term "Pop art", and Eduardo Paolozzi, whose collages incorporated imagery from mass media and popular culture. Pop Art spread to the United States in the 1960s, where artists like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine incorporated everyday objects and imagery into their work. They challenged definitions of art and blurred lines between high and low culture.
Minimalism
Minimalism Art Movement - Art Appreciation
A brief overview of the art movement that took place in New York, early 1960s. This movement is apparently a blatant rejection of abstract expressionism.
Famous painters
Pablo Picasso was a highly influential 20th century Spanish painter and sculptor who co-created Cubism. He donated a 50-foot high public Cubist sculpture called The Chicago Picasso to the people of Chicago.
Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in 1475 in Caprese, Italy. His famous sculpture the Pietà depicts the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus and stands out from all other works on the same subject.
Constantin Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor who pioneered abstraction in sculpture. He created simplified forms and is renowned for works like The Kiss from 1916 which reduced natural forms to near geometric simplicity
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This document provides an overview of art appreciation. It defines art as a craft or expertise according to its Latin origins. It discusses the varied subjects of artworks, including people, objects, senses and events. Art can be representational or non-representational. The document also covers the social, utilitarian, cultural and aesthetic functions of art. It examines elements of art like line, color, form, space and texture and principles like balance, rhythm and emphasis. Finally, it profiles several famous artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Michaelangelo and their notable works.
Art history 101
The document discusses Analytic and Synthetic Cubism from 1907-1912 and 1913-1920s respectively. During Analytic Cubism, the palette was limited and forms were geometric. Synthetic Cubism had brighter colors, simpler forms and more collage. The document also discusses Realism, Collage art, Abstract art and various artists like Dali, Rembrandt, and copies of Ernie Barnes' work.
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- 2. QUICK FACTS NAME Alexander OCCUPATION Illustrator , Sculptor BIRTH DATE July 22, 1898 DEATH DATE November 11, 1976 EDUCATION Art Students League PLACE OF BIRTH Lawnton Pensylvania PLACE OF DEATH New York NICKNAME Sandy Calder
- 3. Alexander Calder made play the major theme of his art. Over the course of more than fifty years, he worked harder than most in the pursuit of the creation of his own universe, invented a whole new genre, an art of moving sculpture known as ‘mobiles,’ and made works on an unsurpassed scale. But he was also an incredibly interesting character, a man who had a childlike view of life which translated seamlessly into his work.
- 4. Many artists made contour line drawings on paper, but Calder was the first to use wire to create three-dimensional line "drawings" of people, animals, and objects.These "linear sculptures" introduced line into sculpture as an element itself.