Alexander Calder Glass Fish

Fish belongs to a series of large suspended sculptures Calder made in the late 1940s and 1950s. An idea which will lead me to make a new object may come from almost anywhere from anything A.

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His artistic parents encouraged Calder to be creative and already from the age of 8 on he had his own little workshop.

Alexander calder glass fish. Prather Alexander Calder 1898-1976 Washington 1998 p. He designed sets and costumes for a number of theatrical performances and designed a huge acoustic ceiling for the Aula Magna auditorium at. Calder had a major show in 1946 at Galerie Louis Carr.

Lawnton Pennsylvania 18981976 Provenance Jh Purchased From Diamond Harold New York 1963 Exhibition History SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM Smithsonian Institution Washington DC. He also created paintings jewelry theatre sets and costumes. In Paris for which Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a seminal essay.

He didnt limit his art to sculptures. The Snow Flurry by Alexander Calder is the most expensive hanging mobile ever sold to date May 2012 only surpassed by Lily of Force which is a stabile by Calder Update. Basically a fish-shaped metal frame it is animated by free-floating suspended glass shards and is reminiscent of a traditional fish trap.

Alexander Calder 1898-1976 Fish signed with the artists monogram CA suspended in wire hanging mobilepainted steel rod wire string colored glass and metal objects 15. From childhood Calder maintained an abiding fascination with the animal world as well as a fondness. X 44 18 x 3.

Monumental public sculpturesHe didnt limit his art to sculptures. July 22 1898 November 11 1976 was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents that embrace chance in their aesthetic and static stabiles. Alexander Calder has used a variety of materials to give the fish an effective range of textures.

July 22 1898 November 11 1976 was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents that embrace chance in their aesthetic and static stabiles. Glass Fish 1955 Wire and glass Another Project With a wire hanger bend it into the desired representational shape. Grand re-opening exhibition 1 July 2006-4 July 2007.

Painted rod wire and string glazed ceramic and glass. From Calder Foundation Alexander Calder Finny Fish 1948 Rod wire glass fragments sheet metal brass sardine can key and paint 21. Calder and Louisa returned to America in 1933 to settle in a farmhouse they purchased in Roxbury Connecticut where they raised a family first daughter Sandra born 1935 second daughter Mary in 1939.

Trained as a mechanical engineer Alexander Calder revolutionized the world of kinetic sculpture with his suspended and standing mobiles a name coined by Calders friend and peer Marcel DuchampIn 1932 bored by the monotony of mechanized movement Calder introduced a new element of chance to his mobiles. By Alexander Calder 1898 - 1976 at Smithsonian American Art Museum 1944 painted metal plastic wood glass and ceramic Info plate Calder created Fish during World War II when steel was scarce. Alexander Calder redefined sculpture by introducing into it the element of movement.

He created sculptures and design objects that participated in the larger tendencies of European and American avant-garde uniquely combining abstract art modernist principles machine and cosmic imagery in his worksHis major contribution to the modernist redefinition of artistic media is the invention of. He once remarked I myself am like my mobiles when I walk along the the street I. Poisson volant Flying Fish a hanging mobile Calder made in 1957 sold for 25925000 on May 13th 2014 a new world auction record for Calder.

Perls 199612015 Works related to Calders Vertical Constellation with Bomb. Calder known to many as Sandy was born in 1898 in Pennsylvania as the second child of well-known sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and painter Nanette Lederer Calder. 4202003 Alexander Calder ˈ k ɔː l d ər.

Alexander Calder American b. In the National Gallery of Art collection. Today mobiles come in a variety of shapes colors styles and some are even battery powered.

In 1955 Alexander and Louisa Calder traveled around in India for three months where Calder produced nine sculptures as well as some jewelry. He combed his neighborhood for cast-off materials. Calder quoted by M.

Referring to the 31-year-old American sculptor Alexander Calder. He has made the fish round and added an extra triangular shape for the fishs tail. 394 x 112 x 82 cm Executed circa 1952.

He also created paintings jewelry theatre sets. When Alexander Calder popularized mobiles they were simply kinetic sculptures that were only seen as visual art. Calders use of the fish tail form was to reach a wider audience when in 1939 he was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to produce a work for their new.

Such as the glass cuttings are all in unity together however the black. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Smithsonian Institution. 4122018 Alexander Calder Fish 1952 Hanging mobile of painted steel rod wire string colored glass and metal objects 15.

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