American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated for revolutionizing sculpture with his renowned mobiles and stabiles, which range from the miniature to the monumental. "Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection" traces Calder's career over 45 works, highlighting his most important themes, styles, and materials from the 1920s through the 1970s while celebrating the transformative gift to SAM from patrons Jon and Kim Shirley. Experience the unique vision of a modern artist who le
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Calder’s oeuvre features spectacular shifts in scale; there are standing mobiles less than two inches high and stabiles over eighty feet high. Jed Perl writes, “[Calder] had a preternatural sensitivity to matters of size and scale, whether the relation of the part to the whole within a single sculpture or the relation of the sculpture to the men and women who looked at it, touched it, and walked around it and sometimes even through it.” The standing mobile seen here in action, Toadstool with Fea
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While most of Calder’s outdoor sculptures are stabiles, the artist also made standing mobiles such as Five Empties, captured here in gentle motion. The siting of these sculptures requires a particular delicacy, as heavy winds can cause them damage. At over twenty-three feet high and completed just three years before the artist's death in 1976, Five Empties is an example par excellence of the monumental sculpture that dominated the artist’s late career. For more information: https://tinyurl.com/2
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Art of Travel Japan on Instagram: "Alexander Calder (1898–1976), the inventor of the mobile, revolutionized sculpture by introducing movement into his works. His mobiles and stabiles are celebrated for their delicate balance and kinetic grace, leaving a lasting impact on modern art. @azabudaihillsgallery is currently hosting “Calder: Un effet du japonais,” the first solo exhibition of Alexander Calder’s work in Tokyo in nearly 35 years. The exhibition features around 100 pieces, including Calder
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