From studying mechanical engineering at university he became interested in producing and studying art.
Moving to Paris in 1926 he enrolled in theAcademie de la Grande Chaumiere.
This soon evolved into Line Sculpture.
In 1931, he created his first non-figurative moving sculpture.
These mobiles were once at the height of the avant-garde art world.
Bet you wont look at them in the same way again!
By 1934 the novelty had apparently subsided though and Calder begins to make non-motorised pieces.
While Duchamp calls them mobiles, Calder calls them his, four-dimensional drawings.
A slow gentle impulse, as though one were moving a barge, is almost infallible.
In any case, gentle is the word.
Thin suspended wire and painted tin shapes.
They were light enough that even the slightest air current would make them move.
These ones that dont move are called, Stabiles.
Literally stable, not moving.
He was very prolific and his creative juices flowed strongly.
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