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When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.
Alexander Calder
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Alexander Calder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 22
Died: 1976
Died: November 11
Designer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Sandy Calder
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The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
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I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
Alexander Calder
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.
Alexander Calder
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
Alexander Calder
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.
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When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
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If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.
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Above all, art should be fun.
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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
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My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
Alexander Calder
The next step in sculpture is motion.
Alexander Calder
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
Alexander Calder
That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
Alexander Calder
You see nature and then you try to emulate it.
Alexander Calder
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.
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My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
Alexander Calder
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
Alexander Calder
