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Alexander CalderUnited States of America, 1898 – 1976
Was he a mechanic?
Or an inventor…
a sculptor…
a painter…
an engineer...
What did he do?
Calder’s family
▪Alexander Calder was born in Philadephia (USA) into a family of artists.
▪His father and his grandfather were both sculptors.
▪His mother was a professional portrait painter.
Can you find the United States in a map?
Calder’s youth
▪When he was 8, he had his first set of tools. ▪He liked creating toys and
things to play with, specially things with movement. ▪He studied Mechanical
Engineering and Art. ▪Some people called him the
mechanical artist. Dog, 1909 Duck, 1909
Calder’s toys
▪In 1926 he moved to Paris, where he met many artist friends.
▪He liked having parties with his friends.
▪He started selling toys to make some money.
▪His toys became very popular.
Kangaroo, 1927 Fish, 1960.
Calder’s Circus
▪Calder liked the circus so much that he created one for himself.
▪His artist friends in Paris (Miró, Man Ray, Mondrian…) liked it very much.
▪He performed the circus in many places in Europe and USA.
Calder’s wire sculptures
▪Calder created portraits of his friends and famous people at the moment.
▪He used wire and space, so he made sculptures in 3D.
Portrait of Joan Miró
Calder’s stabiles
▪In the 1930’s he started making stabiles, static sculptures made of metal.
▪He built the sculptures bigger and bigger.
▪Now these sculptures are in the streets of different cities.
Flamingo,In Chicago.
Man,In Quebec.
Calder’s mobiles
▪In Paris, Calder became very good friend of Miró and Mondrian. They influenced in his art.
▪Calder started doing abstract art. He used geometrical figures like circles and squares.
▪He invented the mobiles, sculptures that moved.
Glass fish
Standing mobiles
Núria LorenzoCLIL Art & Crafts at Can Raspalls2015/2016