Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder established himself as a leading
ABSTRACT sculptor with
his invention of the mobile, a form
of sculpture that moves. Calder grew up in an artistic
household; his mother was a painter, and his grandfather and
father were sculptors. As a child, he enjoyed inventing
mechanical toys and machines and decided to pursue a career
in engineering. After he completed his engineering degree,
however, he began to create wire sculptures of humans and
animals, which brought him great success in the art world.
Calder's contact with
AVANT-GARDE artists
in the United States and Paris during the 1920s and 1930s
inspired him to move into purely abstract art.
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