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| Calder’s fascination with the circus began in 1925 while he was still studying at the Art Students’ League in New York. He spent two weeks sketching at Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus on a freelance assignment for the National Police Gazette and in 1926 began creating the first few figures of wire and wood.
Best known as the inventor of the mobile and its static abstract counterpart, the stabile, much of Calder’s most original ideas and aesthetic were developed in the laboratory of his extensive, elaborate and functional Circus. Cirque Calder is a whimsical miniature circus of wire figures and creatures created by the celebrated American sculptor Alexander Calder (b. July 22, 1898 – d. November 11, 1976) between 1926 and 1931, during his time in Paris. When he moved to Paris to continue his studies later that year, he took these figures with him, and in 1927 began giving improvised shows with his miniature circus. The shows were popular with the European avant-garde including Joan Miró (who became a life-long friend), Jean Arp (who first coined the term "stabile"), Jean Cocteau air jordans 5, Frederick Kiesler, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp (who first coined the term “mobile”), Piet Mondrian, Jules Pascin, Fernand Léger, Tsugouharu Foujita and Antoine Pevsner all of whom came to influence aspects of Calder’s style. Although Calder eventually moved beyond the Cirque Calder, the aesthetics and qualities of the circus, mainly suspense, surprise, spontaneity, humour, gaiety, whimsy, wit, glee and playfulness, would form the foundation for his work over the ne Calder was to spend the 1920’s and 1930’s travelling between North America and Europe giving performances for special audiences. In Paris, he would narrate his two hour shows in French. Click here to view the first of a series of 4 videos showing Calder giving an impressive performance later in his life. His wife, Louisa James, can be seen operating the gramaphone. Accented with wood, bronze, cork, fabric scraps, beads and bits of jewellery, the figures and animals each possess a distinct personality. Made with precision, they walk the fine line between toys and sculpture with the most impressive ones being the: He also added considerably to the troupe over a period of 6 years, finally stopping in 1931. At its height, the Cirque Calder consisted of dozens of wire-frame acrobats, trapeze artists, exotic dancers Air Jordan 5 retro, a knife-thrower, sword-swallower and performing animals which were rigged with thread, pulleys, cranks and springs to tumble, gallop, lift, gyrate and even catch each other in mid-air. These displayed Calder's early aptitude for mathematics and his training as a mechanical engineer. Even though Calder called it his circus in a suitcase jordans january 2011, these creations eventually came to occupy an impressive 6 valises. Weightlifter which can bend, pick up a set of weights, straighten up and put the weights downExotic dancer gyrating by means of a hand-crankTrapeze artists which can swing and catch each other in mid-air with precisionAmbulance unit which can walk when pulled by a threadHorses pulling chariots that mimic galloping while their charioteers bend back and forth in the act of whipping them Read on Alexander Calder: Artist Biography Wire Sculpture: Materials & Tools Miró, Calder, Giacometti and Braque |
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