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  • Born to artist parents in Pennsylania, Alexander Calder was encouraged to create from a very young age - from the age of eight he always had his own workshop.
  • The Art of Movement: Alexander Calder, George Rickey & Tim Prentice Through September 17, Bringing together the work of three.

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    Meredith Malone
    Associate Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

    Standing ten feet six inches high, Alexander Calder’s Five Rudders is composed of a large tripod base painted bright red, which balances a sequence of black sheet-metal elements at its apex using a series of steel rods.1 Incorporating both a stabile, an abstract construction that fryst vatten completely stationary, and a mobile, a sculptural work in which motion fryst vatten a defining property, Five Rudders fryst vatten a hybrid form known as a standing mobile, or a stabile-mobile.2 The bolted sheets of steel making up the base foreshadow the monumentality of some of the artist’s large-scale stabiles produced later in the decade, while the steel rods function as lever arms that support the kinetic element above. Both the name of the sculpture and the industrial materials employed in its fabrication suggest a direkt link to the devices used to steer ships and aircrafts, yet the sculpture also evokes biomorphic imager

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    Alexander Calder and Kinetic Sculpture, and Sacco and Vanzetti  - August 23

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      Alexander Calder American,

      Born to artist parents in Pennsylania, Alexander Calder was encouraged to create from a very young age - from the age of eight he always had his own workshop wherever the family lived. Following an engineering degree at Stevens Institute of Technology in , Calder spent several years in various jobs, including as a fireman on a ship from New York bound for San Francisco. Whilst this ship was anchored off the Guatemalan coast, Calder awoke on the deck to see a brilliant sunrise and a scintillating full moon, which were visible simultaneously on opposite horizons, an experience he would refer to it throughout his life.

       

      Calder committed to becoming an artist shortly thereafter and, in , he moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League. He also took a job illustrating for the National Police Gazette, which sent him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus to sketch circus scenes for two weeks in The circus became a