Sentences with phrase «cirque calder»
Soon after moving to Paris in 1926, Calder created his Cirque Calder.
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More than anyone working today, Beck is the heir to Alexander Calder and his «Cirque Calder» (1926 — 31), with its many moveable figures and parts.
In 1926 he moved to Paris and created his Cirque Calder, a sort of travelling circus set made from cloth, leather, wire and found materials.
Soon he was presenting his Cirque Calder in both Paris and New York to much acclaim.
Cirque Calder is now part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum in New York, but a live performance carried out by the artist in later years can be seen on youtube.com.
Soon after his arrival, in an attempt to earn some money, he made his Cirque Calder, a miniature stage set starring tiny circus performers that he could manipulate with wires and strings to do tricks.
Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children's book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestries and rugs, and political posters.
Before 7 March: Calder performs Cirque Calder at his home in Roxbury for the Mirós, Henri Seyrig (Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie), and Henrique and Helena Mindlin.
Le Grand Cirque Calder 1927 (1955).
Fashioned from wire, fabric, leather, rubber, cork, and other materials, Cirque Calder is designed to be performed for an audience by Calder.
16 November: Calder performs Cirque Calder in his studio at 14 rue de la Colonie.
15 December: Calder performs Cirque Calder in his apartment at 244 East Eighty - sixth Street and Second Avenue, New York.
31 December: Calder performs Cirque Calder on New Year's Eve at the home of Jack and Edith Straus on West Fifty - seventh Street, New York.
Calder performs Cirque Calder for the faculty and students on 31 January.
Before 3 August: Carlos Vilardebo directs Le Cirque Calder, a film with narration by Calder.
Le Cirque Calder (1961).
18 June: Calder performs Cirque Calder in the studio of Tsuguharu Foujita, a painter and well - known denizen of Montparnasse.
Calder performs Cirque Calder twice during the exhibition.
At Nitze's request, he performs Cirque Calder.
7 September: Calder holds a performance of Cirque Calder in the family's Roxbury studio for his daughters: I have to show the children how to run it so that they can carry on.
Winter: Calder presents Cirque Calder in Washington, D.C.; Jean invites «what seemed half of Washington, D.C., to see it.»
Later, Miró attends Cirque Calder.
5 — 6 September: Calder performs Cirque Calder in Roxbury.
25 December: Calder performs Cirque Calder in the home of Aline Bernstein on Park Avenue.
Through gifts and purchase funds, Jean and her husband Howard made possible the core of the Whitney's impressive Calder collection, including Cirque Calder, acquired in 1983.
The circus became a lifelong interest of Calder's, and after moving to Paris in 1926, he created his Cirque Calder, a complex and unique body of art.
30 January: Calder performs Cirque Calder at the Park Avenue home of Mr. & Mrs. Huntington Sheldon.
October: In need of money to pay rent, Calder charges admission to performances of Cirque Calder.
22 June: Calder embarks for New York on the De Grasse, bringing Cirque Calder with him.
20 — 21 October: Calder gives two performances of Cirque Calder in the Members Room of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for friends and staff.
During their stay, Calder performs Cirque Calder for the Mirós, their farmhands, and their neighbors.
After March: Calder performs Cirque Calder at the Sert's home in Lattingtown, New York.
14 October: On the advice of Frederick Kiesler, a Viennese architect, Calder invites Le Corbusier, Karl Einstein, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, and Théo van Doesburg to a presentation of Cirque Calder at 7 Villa Brune.
20 May: Calder performs Cirque Calder at Herbert and Mercedes Matter's apartment, 328 East Forty - second Street, New York.
10 September: Calder performs Cirque Calder at 7 Villa Brune.
This segment shows Calder performing Cirque Calder.
29 October: Calder performs Cirque Calder at art patron Mildred Harbeck's apartment, 306 Lexington Avenue, New York.
Calder performs Cirque Calder at artist Margarett Sargent's house, 205 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Winter: Calder returns to New York and rents a room at 46 Charles Street where he gives Cirque Calder performances.
28 August: Calder performs Cirque Calder at Hawes's couture house, 8 West Fifty - sixth Street, New York.
Calder quickly gained renown for his beloved work of performance art, Cirque Calder, which many of his artist contemporaries came to see, including Piet Mondrian, who reciprocated by opening the doors to his Paris studio in October of 1930.
In 1926 he travelled to Paris, where he would periodically live and work until 1933, and where he created his fabled Cirque Calder (1926 — 31).
Not exact matches
«The Popular Sources of Calder's Circus: The Humpty Dumpty Circus, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey, and the Cirque Medrano.»
7 November: Calder leaves Aix for Paris to begin filming Cirque de Calder, directed by Jean Painlevé, with André Bac as cameraman.
Alexander Calder: Le Grand Cirque.
The exhibition commemorates the publication of a book by the same title, which includes an essay by Calder, «Voici une petite histoire de mon cirque.»
Legrand - Chabrier admires Calder's work and writes several articles on the Cirque.