Born in the 1960s, he's the grandson of Alexander Calder, the beloved American artist who
invented mobile sculptures.
Not exact matches
He travelled to Paris in the 1920s where he developed his wire
sculptures and by 1931 had
invented the
mobile, a term first coined by Marcel Duchamp to describe Calder's motorised objects.
When Alexander Calder
invented the
mobile in the early 1930s, he brought a new kinetic form of
sculpture to the art world.
Following a visit in October of 1930 to Mondrian's studio, where he was impressed by the environment and actuation of space, Calder made his first wholly abstract compositions and
invented the kinetic
sculpture now known as the
mobile.
In 1931 Calder
invented the
mobile, an entirely new mode of
sculpture.