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    Alexander Calder: Meet The Artist Did You Know?

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    Alexander Calder studied art in New York and was fascinated by things that moved as a child. He spent his career designing mobiles and kinetic sculptures, which are works of art that move or have motion from motors or air currents. Calder was interested in balance and made sure all his creations would balance when suspended. The mobile pictured is over 76 feet long, weighs 920 pounds, and hangs in the National Gallery of Art. Calder also made stationary sculptures called stabiles that were often in the form of animals.

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    Alexander Calder studied art in New York and was fascinated by things that moved as a child. He spent his career designing mobiles and kinetic sculptures, which are works of art that move or have motion from motors or air currents. Calder was interested in balance and made sure all his creations would balance when suspended. The mobile pictured is over 76 feet long, weighs 920 pounds, and hangs in the National Gallery of Art. Calder also made stationary sculptures called stabiles that were often in the form of animals.

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    Alexander Calder studied art in New York and was fascinated by things that moved as a child. He spent his career designing mobiles and kinetic sculptures, which are works of art that move or have motion from motors or air currents. Calder was interested in balance and made sure all his creations would balance when suspended. The mobile pictured is over 76 feet long, weighs 920 pounds, and hangs in the National Gallery of Art. Calder also made stationary sculptures called stabiles that were often in the form of animals.

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    Alexander Calder: Meet The Artist Did You Know?

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    Alexander Calder studied art in New York and was fascinated by things that moved as a child. He spent his career designing mobiles and kinetic sculptures, which are works of art that move or have motion from motors or air currents. Calder was interested in balance and made sure all his creations would balance when suspended. The mobile pictured is over 76 feet long, weighs 920 pounds, and hangs in the National Gallery of Art. Calder also made stationary sculptures called stabiles that were often in the form of animals.

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    Alexander Calder Untitled. 1976.


    Alexander Calder studied art at the Art Students League in
    New York. As a child, he was fascinated by things that moved,
    and he spent much of his career designing mobiles and kinetic
    sculptures. Kinetic sculptures are works of art that move or
    have motion, either from motors or air currents. Calder was also
    interested in balance, and he worked hard to make sure that
    all of his creations would balance when suspended in the air.
    The mobile pictured below hangs from the ceiling in one of the
    galleries at The National Gallery of Art; it is more than 76ft in
    length and weighs 920 pounds. Most of Calder’s mobiles were
    constructed from brass, sheet metal, wire and paint. Calder did
    not have a specific name for this work of art and chose to call
    it: “untitled.” If you could name this sculpture, what would you call it? Calder also made stationary sculptures
    which he called stabiles. Many of these were in the form of animals, like Rearing Stallion, pictured below.
    Article written by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum *Images courtesy of the National Gallery of Art and U.S. Postal Service.

    Did you know? Meet the Artist


    In March 1998, The U.S. Postal Service issued five different
    .32 cent stamps featuring Calder’s sculptures. Rearing • Calder was born on July 22, 1898 in
    Stallion (c. 1928) was the inspiration for one of the stamps. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he died in
    1976

    • He lived in Pennsylvania, Paris and


    Connecticut

    • Sculptor

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