The artist lived in both Roxbury, CT, and Saché, France, before his death on Novemin New York, NY. Over the course of seven decades, along with his mobiles, he also produced paintings, monumental outdoor sculptures, works on paper, domestic objects, and jewelry. His earliest mobiles moved by motors, but Calder soon abandoned these mechanics and designed pieces that moved by air currents or human interaction. Notably, it was his friend Duchamp that coined the term mobile-a pun in French meaning both “motion” and “motive”-during a visit to Calder’s Paris studio in 1931. “The whole thing of the-the vast space-I’ve always loved it.” With these performances, along with his wire sculptures, Calder attracted the attention of such notable figures as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Fernand Léger. “I was very fond of the spatial relations,” he said of his interest in the circus. Calder moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1926, where he was introduced to the European avant-garde through performances of his Cirque Calder (1926–1931). Born on Augin Lawnton, PA, Calder turned to art in the 1920s, studying drawing and painting under George Luks and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students League in New York. “My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses, and movement,” the artist once said. Calder also produced a variety of two-dimensional artworks including lithographs, paintings, and tapestries as seen in his Butterfly (1970). Printed in France.Īlexander Calder was an American artist best known for his invention of the kinetic sculptures known as mobiles. 1971 from Derrière le miroir:įrom: Derrière le miroir Published Paris c. I’m heading in new directions.”įind a collection of original Joan Miró art on 1stDibs.Īlexander Calder Lithograph c.

Five years before that, he was quoted saying, “I painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. The radical visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. Miró’s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization.

With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan Miró was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction. Among them were, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies.Ĭalder prints. The lithographic publication covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions. Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) who were famous at the time. The publication was created in October 1946 (n☁) and published without interruption until 1982 (n☂53). His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. 1960s Joan Miró Lithograph from Derrière le miroir:įrom: Derrière le miroir Printed in France c.

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