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Alexander Calder

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Calder, Alexander 

Born July 22, 1898, in Philadelphia. American sculptor.

From 1923 to 1926, Calder studied at the Art Students League in New York City. Between 1926 and 1933 he worked in Paris, where he became close friends with J. Miró and P. Mondrian. Around 1930 he began to work in abstract forms. Calder, one of the foremost representatives of American modernism, imbues his work with a spirit of decadent irrationality. Some of his mobiles—suspended constructions of metal plates and wire that form different compositions as they move—are marked by inventiveness and precision of design, as well as decorative expressiveness. Calder has made stabiles, or stationary metal constructions, and wire portraits. He is also a graphic artist and painter.

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Bellew, P. Alexander Calder. New York, 1969.
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