alexander calder

     

This American remarked, "Disparity in form, color, size, weight, motion is what makes a composition"

Trivia about alexander calder

  • "Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" is one of this artist's best-known mobiles
  • He was a successful sculptor; his son, also named Alexander, made a stable living out of mobile art
  • Works by this man were first described as "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp
  • His suspended abstract sculptures were given the name "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp
  • This artist's "Works in Progress" was a 'ballet" with mobiles, stabiles & electronic music
  • Famous for his mobiles, he painted a DC-8 in 1973 & a 727 in 1975
  • The tribute to this artist was released March 25, 1998 in Washington, D.C., not "Mobile"
  • This American known for his mobiles also created a wire portrait of Josephine Baker
  • Upwardly "mobile" Alexander
  • This artist famed for his mobiles created a miniature circus that's in the Whitney Museum of American Art

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